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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. To qualify, the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions; employment conditions; show that they are providing full-time care and attention; and must show that the care recipient requires full-time care and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: A person in receipt of Jobseeker’s Benefit or Jobseeker’s Allowance or signing for credited contributions is stating that they are capable of and actively seeking full time employment, which is incompatible with providing full time care and attention to a person in need of such care. Accordingly, a person in receipt of Jobseeker’s Benefit or Jobseeker’s Allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Redundancy Payments Act 1967, as amended, provides for the making of payments by employers to employees in respect of statutory redundancy. It is an employer’s responsibility in the first instance to pay a redundancy payment to all eligible employees; should a redundancy situation arise. In the event that an employer is unable to pay the statutory redundancy lump sum due to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: In addition to her widow's contributory pension, payable at the weekly rate of €253.30, the person concerned has been awarded a living alone allowance at the weekly rate of €22.00 from the 22nd April 2022; fuel allowance at the weekly rate of €33.00 and the telephone support allowance at the weekly rate of €2.50 from the 21st October 2022. Payment will commence at...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a universal monthly payment made to families with children up to the age of 16 years. The payment continues to be paid in respect of children until their eighteenth birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. Estimated expenditure on the scheme will be approximately €2.1 billion in 2022. In Budget 2023, I secured a significant Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in-work support which provides an income top-up for employees on low earnings with children. To qualify for Working Family Payment the customer must have at least 1 qualified child who normally resides with them and be working a minimum of 38 hours per fortnight in ongoing insurable employment. Once WFP is awarded, the weekly rate of payment remains...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 451 and 467 together. As part of Budget 2023, the Social Protection budget has been designed to assist people with cost-of- living increases through a mix of lump sum payments, increases to weekly payment rates and an expansion of the Fuel Allowance scheme. The measures introduced include the provision of a one-off €500 Cost-of-Living payment, which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, my Department may make additional needs payments to help meet expenses that a person cannot pay from their weekly income. This is an overarching term used to refer to exceptional and urgent needs payments, and certain supplements to assist with ongoing or recurring costs that cannot be met from the customer’s own resources, and which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I announced a series of landmark reforms to the State Pension system on 20th September 2022. The measures, which were approved by Government, are in response to the Pensions Commission’s recommendations. The set of measures represent the biggest ever structural reform of the Irish State Pension system. The reform measures include enhanced pension provision for long-term carers of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Applications for Exceptional Needs Payments (ENPs) are made under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme administered by Designated Persons in the Community Welfare Service in the Department. The purpose of the ENP is to assist people with essential, once-off, exceptional expenditure, which cannot be met from any other source and which a person could not reasonably be expected to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 17 October 2022. CA was awarded on 15 November 2022, with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for Carer’s Allowance (CA) was received from the person concerned on 13 October 2022. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is a monthly allowance payable in respect of a child aged under 16, who has a severe disability and requires ongoing continual or continuous care and attention substantially over and above the care and attention normally required by a child of the same age and the child must be likely to require this level of care and attention for at least 12 consecutive...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. The person concerned was awarded full rate CA from 27 October 2022. Payment will issue to the person’s nominated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: A Jobseeker’s payment is paid for days of unemployment and a person must satisfy all the conditions of the Jobseeker’s scheme including being capable of work, available for and genuinely seeking full time work. Employees who are temporarily laid-off for example, where they expect to return to the same employment at a later date, are not entitled to a Jobseeker's payment in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment (WFP), formerly Family Income Supplement, is a weekly in-work support which provides an income top-up for employees on low earnings with children. To qualify for Working Family Payment the customer must be working a minimum of 38 hours per fortnight in ongoing insurable employment and have at least 1 qualified child who normally resides with them. An application...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Applications for Exceptional Needs Payments (ENPs) are made under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme administered by Designated Persons in the Community Welfare Service in the Department. The purpose of the ENP is to assist people with essential, once-off, exceptional expenditure, which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. ENPs are demand led...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is a statutory agency tasked with providing information, advocacy, and advice to citizens. These important services are delivered by eight independent regional Citizen Information Service (CIS) companies, that operate a national network of Citizens Information Centres, including Dublin North Citizens Information Services, which encompasses Ballymun. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is a statutory agency tasked with providing information, advocacy, and advice to citizens. These important services are delivered by eight independent regional Citizen Information Service (CIS) companies, that operate a national network of Citizens Information Centres. It is important to note that, by law, the CIB is charged with independently...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: A Community Welfare Officer (CWO) is available to meet with customers by appointment 5 days a week at the Carrick-on-Suir Social Welfare Branch Office or where needed, can arrange to visit a person’s house by appointment. In addition, any person who needs to access the Community Welfare Service (CWS) can call the national CWS freephone number at 0818 60 70 80, to speak to a CWO or...