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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Sep 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Rent-A-Room means disregard applies to social welfare customers who rent a room in their own home. This allows for up to a limit of €269.23 per week in respect of income from renting a room in their own home to be disregarded. The prescribed conditions for benefitting from this disregard can be found in the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims. Payments and Control) (Amendment)...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned applied for fuel allowance on 23 September 2021. Following a means assessment, they were awarded Fuel from 24 September 2021 and were notified in writing on 04 December 2021. They are currently in receipt of the allowance in the form of lump sum payments. The person concerned submitted another application for fuel allowance on 7 September 2022. As self-employed income was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Sep 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that the Department received an application for disability allowance (DA) from the person concerned on 19 September 2022 On 23 September 2022, the person concerned was requested to supply supporting documentation required by the deciding officer in order to make a decision on her eligibility. On receipt of this information a decision will be made on her DA application and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme.  These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 80 private transport operators.  There are approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (29 Sep 2022)

Heather Humphreys: My Department recently completed a significant expansion of employment services across the State.  This includes the provision of a State-wide intensive employment service for those furthest from the labour market - the new Intreo Partners Local Area Employment Service (IPLAES).  This new service will for the first time provide a single comprehensive service for all of County...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Farm Assist is a statutory income support specifically for farmers on low-incomes. There are approximately 4,600 claims in payment at present. The Government has provided €53.9 million for the scheme for 2022.   Further to the commitments in the Programme for Government and in the Rural Development Policy 2021-2025, my Department reviewed the means assessment disregards...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2022)

Heather Humphreys: As of the end of August 2022, there were 332 farmers or agricultural sector workers in receipt of Jobseeker's Allowance, and 5,171 in receipt of Jobseeker's Benefit. Due to the movement of the Working Family Payment (WFP) scheme, formerly called Family Income Supplement, from a legacy system to a current system, the number of farmers or agricultural sector workers in receipt of WFP...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that the Department received an application for disability allowance (DA) from the person concerned on 03 August 2022 On 26 August 2022, the person concerned was requested to supply supporting documentation required by the deciding officer in order to make a decision on her eligibility. A further information request was sent to the person concerned on 17 September 2022 On...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. Carer’s benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a person(s) in need of full-time care and attention. A...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme is the safety net within the overall Social Welfare system in that it provides assistance to eligible people in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs and those of their dependents.  Supports provided under the SWA scheme can consist of a basic weekly payment, a weekly or monthly supplement in respect of certain...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Sep 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Jobseeker's Allowance is a means-tested payment made to people who are unemployed and, amongst other qualifying criteria, are available for full-time work. According to the records of my Department, the person concerned was in receipt of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JA) from 21/03/2022 until 30/08/2022.  Eligibility to JA ceased when my Department was advised by the Revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (29 Sep 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Community Centres Investment Fund is a €15m capital fund to support community groups, particularly in disadvantaged areas, with the upgrade of their community centre facilities. The application closing date was Thursday,14th July 2022 and the appraisal process is currently ongoing. All applications will be subject to a competitive assessment process based on the assessment criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 410 and 422 together. Diet supplement, administered under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, is payable to qualifying persons, in receipt of the supplement prior to February 2014, who have been prescribed a special diet because of a specified medical condition.  There are currently approximately 1,320 people in receipt of diet...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66.  This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions.  I can confirm that my department has not received an application for disability...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Disablement Benefit is paid if a person loses certain physical or mental abilities as a result of their work, or while they were travelling to or from work. The number of recipients of Disablement Benefit by quarter from Q1 2020 to Q2 2022 are shown in the attached tabular statement. Quarter Recipients Q1 2020 14,531 Q2 2020 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (4 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) from late September to April, which is supporting over 370,000 households in 2022, at an estimated cost of €366 million.  The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs.  The allowance represents a contribution towards the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Transport (4 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: There were no domestic flights taken for work purposes by myself, Minister O'Brien or Departmental staff during 2019 to 2021, and to date in 2022.  I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (4 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned reached pension age on 05 September 2015.  According to the records of my Department, they have a total of 624 qualifying paid and credited social insurance contributions from their date of entry into self-employment, in April 1988, to end of December 2014. This equates to a yearly average of 23 contributions giving an entitlement of 85% of the state pension...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (4 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Rent supplement continues to play a key role in supporting families and individuals in private rented accommodation, with the scheme providing support to 10,423 recipients at the end of August 2022. The scheme provides short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (4 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: According to the records of my Department, the person concerned reached pension age on 01 July 2022 and their application for State pension (contributory) was received on 26 July 2022. An interim decision has been made and the person concerned has been awarded State Pension (contributory) from 01 July 2022 at 85% of the maximum rate. They were notified of this decision in writing on 26...