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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (16 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: The Family Income Supplement (FIS) is designed to provide support for people with families who are on low earnings. This preserves the incentive for them to remain in employment in circumstances where they might only be marginally better off than if they were claiming other social welfare payments. FIS is calculated on the basis of 60% of the difference between the income limit for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Bodies (16 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 545 and 551 together. I am providing a list of bodies that were both fully and partially funded in 2012 by my Department, as it is not possible to differentiate between those that were fully funded and those that were not. The list is extensive as there were over 1,000 bodies that benefited from funding under Community Employment (CE) schemes alone. In...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (16 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the disability allowance claim of the person concerned was disallowed following an assessment by a Medical Assessor who expressed the opinion that he was medically unsuitable for the allowance. An appeal was registered on 6 November 2012 and in accordance with the statutory procedures the relevant department papers and the comments of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Places (16 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: There are no plans to change the current CE eligibility criteria to facilitate those who have previously participated on CE schemes for the maximum duration to re-enter. As of 4 January of this year there were 188,632 jobseekers on the Live Register who were over 1 year unemployed. These jobseekers are the primary target group for Community Employment. Any changes as advised would result...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 7th of November 2011. The person concerned was refused carer’s allowance on the ground that the care recipient is not so disabled as to require full time care and attention as prescribed in regulations. She was notified of this decision and the reason for it. The...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 18th of October 2011. The person concerned was refused carer’s allowance on the ground that the care recipient is not so disabled as to require full time care and attention as prescribed in regulations. She was notified of this decision and the reason for it. The...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: Payment of supplementary welfare allowance (mortgage interest supplement), to the person concerned, was withdrawn on the grounds that her excess weekly income is greater that the weekly mortgage interest. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned together with the relevant Departmental papers and the comments of the Deciding Officer on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: Ensuring the right person gets paid the right amount of money is a priority for my Department. Control work is an essential element of the day-to-day work of the Department and control savings are an estimate of the value of the various control activities across the different schemes in payment. The savings represent an estimate of the value of prevented future expenditure that would have...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: It is not possible to extract the data requested in respect of the actual weekly net amount paid to persons with unique PPS numbers or the highest weekly total net amount paid to an individual PPS number by my Department in 2012 under one or more different payment headings. This is because the Department delivers a wide range of payments at weekly, monthly, annual and other intervals across a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 26th January 2012. The application is with a deciding officer for a decision. Once processed, the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Creation (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: The back to work options which the person concerned may have an entitlement to avail of can be obtained from the department’s website. Additional information on employment options may also be obtained by contacting the job facilitator in the Employment Services Support Office in Maynooth.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: The person concerned was assessed with an overpayment of jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance for the periods of time when she was also in receipt of a non-contributory widow's pension. During the review of the entitlements of the person concerned arising from this issue it was also established that an underpayment of the non-contributory widow's pension had also occurred for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who proposes to hold an oral hearing in this case. Every effort will be made to hear the case as quickly as possible and the appellant will be informed when arrangements have been made. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: The person concerned attended the community welfare service on Monday 07 January 2013 and applied for supplementary welfare allowance (SWA). He was given an application form and was requested to provide evidence of his continuous residence in Ireland and means of support since January 2010. He was also advised to make a claim for jobseekers allowance. This was followed up by a letter to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Redeployment (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: The Department maintains separate transfer lists for each location and each grade which in addition to DSP staff, includes staff from all Government departments who are seeking a transfer to any of the Department's offices. In addition, the Public Appointments Service operates the Central Applications Facility (CAF) which was introduced in 2004 to manage transfer in the context of the...

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: I wish to acknowledge the work of Deputy Ó Snodaigh in bringing this Bill before the House and his interest in the area of social welfare fraud. I also wish to thank all of the Deputies for some interesting contributions to the debate so far. The Bill aims to provide social welfare recipients with the opportunity to disclose voluntarily and report any irregularities in their existing...

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: It is only taken from the principal individual.

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: Yes and that might be appropriate in some circumstances, while it might not at all be appropriate in others. Members who have dealt with officials of the Department of Social Protection will know that most of them are extremely concerned with regard to the welfare of individuals. I merely wished to clarify the point. It is somewhat offensive to the majority of people that some quite...

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: It was 38%, or €34.9 million. People often use the word "error". However, there are those who make claims at social welfare offices who do not fully reveal their personal circumstances. In some instances, this is because they are genuinely mistaken or they forget to provide some detail. In other instances, they are given the benefit of the doubt because matters are not pursued...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (22 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: The costs arising during the development of the new service identity related to the initial design, the design implementation (including signage), some translation costs, the cost of royalty free images and trademark search & registration. The costs to date, are approximately €153,235, which can be broken down as follows: - Rebranding (Design development and implementation):...