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Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: Any person who makes a claim for jobseeker's allowance, domiciliary care allowance, child benefit, one parent family payment, disability allowance, State pension non-contributory, carer's allowance, widow's non-contributory, guardian's non-contributory payment, blind pension or supplementary welfare allowance must be habitually resident in the State. Section 15 of the Social Welfare and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: Statistics are not maintained of the number of court orders compelling the Department to make deductions from social welfare payments for maintenance purposes. Each order is dealt with on an individual basis. Under normal circumstances, social welfare payments cannot be reduced below the corresponding rate of supplementary welfare allowance which would be payable, based on family...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: Spouses who are actively engaged in a commercial partnership, including the operation of a farm, as opposed to simply being the joint owners of a property, are treated as individual self-employed contributors. In these cases, both spouses are liable to pay PRSI (Class S) contributions in a timely manner. On foot of a Programme for Government commitment an information leaflet, 'Working with...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: Spouses who are actively engaged in a commercial partnership, including the operation of a farm, as opposed to simply being the joint owners of a property, are treated as individual self-employed contributors. In these cases both spouses are liable to pay PRSI (Class S) contributions in a timely manner. On foot of a Programme for Government commitment an information leaflet, 'Working with...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: Spouses who are actively engaged in a commercial partnership, including the operation of a farm, as opposed to simply being the joint owners of a property, are treated as individual self-employed contributors. In these cases, both spouses are liable to pay PRSI (Class S) contributions in a timely manner. On foot of a Programme for Government commitment an information leaflet, 'Working with...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme is administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive (HSE). A person may qualify for basic supplementary welfare allowance if s/he is living in the State, satisfies a means test, has applied for any other benefit or allowances s/he may be entitled to, for example, one-parent family...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: Spouses who are actively engaged in a commercial partnership, including the operation of a farm, as opposed to simply being the joint owners of a property, are treated as individual self-employed contributors. In these cases, both spouses are liable to pay PRSI (Class S) contributions in a timely manner. On foot of a Programme for Government commitment an information leaflet, 'Working with...

Written Answers — Capital Projects: Capital Projects (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: The Office of Public Works has responsibility for the provision of office accommodation for the Department. I understand that the information requested by the Deputy in relation to new capital projects associated with the Department is being compiled by the OPW and it will be provided to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: In order to qualify for Domiciliary Care Allowance a child must have a disability so severe that it requires the child needing care and attention and/or supervision substantially in excess of another child of the same age. This care and attention must be given by another person, effectively full-time so that the child can deal with the activities of daily living. The child must be likely to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: Spouses who are actively engaged in a commercial partnership, including the operation of a farm, as opposed to simply being the joint owners of a property, are treated as individual self-employed contributors. In these cases both spouses are liable to pay PRSI (Class S) contributions in a timely manner. On foot of a Programme for Government commitment an information leaflet, 'Working with...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: The table below provides data on the total number of contributors to the Social Insurance Fund together with a breakdown of this figure by PRSI Class type. The figures for 2007 represent the most recent end-of-year returns received from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners for both employees and self-employed contributors. A breakdown of the 2008 figures will be published in the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: Under Section 201 of the 2005 Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, the Community Welfare division of the Health Service Executive (HSE) may make a single payment to meet an exceptional need to people on social welfare or health board payments. These payments are known as Exceptional Needs Payments (ENPs) and are made to assist with any essential, once-off cost which the applicant is unable to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that, in accordance with statutory requirements, the Department was asked for the documentation in the case and the Deciding Officer's comments on the grounds of the appeal. In that context, an examination by another Medical Assessor will be carried out. The person concerned will be notified when arrangements for the examination have been...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that, following receipt of the relevant Departmental papers including comments on the grounds of appeal, the appeal from the person concerned has been referred to an Appeals Officer for consideration. The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an office of the Department that is independently responsible for determining appeals against decisions on...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: It is understood that this Question relates to the treatment of cohabiting couples in the social welfare and tax systems. These systems have evolved over time and in response to a variety of factors, including Constitutional imperatives as interpreted by the Courts, changing social trends and EU Directives. The social welfare code recognises the couple status of co-habiting couples and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: Based on the information available in March 2009 in the Central Unit dealing with habitual residency cases, the number of Irish people refused for failure to meet the habitual residency requirements was 424. In addition to the decisions made in the central unit and the other payment areas, the figure of 985 which was provided in response to the question on 19th January is an accurate...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: The person concerned applied for jobseeker's allowance on 19 January 2010 having exhausted entitlement to jobseekers benefit on 6 January 2010. Her application is currently being examined and she will be notified as soon as a decision is made.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: The information sought by the Deputy is not compiled on a city or county basis within the Department. Statistics on fraudulent claims are not maintained in such a manner as to enable the information sought by the Deputy to be provided.

Written Answers — Money Advice and Budgeting Service: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: The number of people in North Tipperary who have availed of the services of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service in 2008 and in 2009 is outlined in the table below. Year New Clients in North Tipperary MABS 2008 206 2009 311 This represents a 51% increase in new clients in 2009 as compared to 2008. An additional part-time money advisor was appointed in North Tipperary MABS on 23...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2010)

Mary Hanafin: Disability Allowance is a weekly Allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged over 16 and under 66. The disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, a means test and a habitual residence test. The person concerned applied for Disability Allowance on 10 November 2009. Her claim was assessed by a Medical...