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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (20 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 11 January 2016. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers were received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 10 May...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (20 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: 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 a disability such that they require that level of care. An application for carer's allowance (CA) was received from the person concerned on 19 February 2016. The matter was referred to a local social welfare inspector (SWI) to assess the level...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (20 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Public Services Card (PSC) is designed to replace other cards within the public service such as the social services card and free travel pass and to make it easy for providers of public services to verify the identity of customers. Since March of this year, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade requires all passport applicants who are resident in Ireland, have never held a passport...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 4 May 2016. Unfortunately, there are currently delays in the processing of new application. Additional resources have been provided to the CA section in order to improve the waiting times for new applications and they are working hard to make this happen. Frequently, delays...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Appeals (20 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Payment of illness benefit to the person concerned was disallowed by a Deciding Officer following an examination by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that she was capable of work. An appeal was registered on 4 July 2016 and the Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that, in accordance with statutory requirements, the Department was asked for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: 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 a disability such that they require that level of care. The Department periodically reviews claims in payment to ensure that there is continued entitlement and a recipient on a reduced rate may request a review if s/he believes they are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: An application for carer's allowance (CA) was received from the person concerned on 4 May 2016. The application was awarded to the person concerned on 4 July 2016 and the first payment issued to their nominated post office on 7 July 2016. Arrears of allowance due from 5 May 2016 to 6 July 2016 have also issued. The person concerned was notified on 4 July 2016 of this decision. I hope this...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 23 March 2016. Further information, necessary to decide the application but omitted from the original application, was sought from the person concerned on 30 June 2016. Once this information is received, the application will be further processed and the person concerned will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Titles (20 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The name of my Department remained unchanged on the formation of the new Government on 6 May 2016. There are no plans, at this time, to change the name of the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (21 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The two pension schemes mentioned fall within the scope of the ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the Insolvency Directive (2008/94). That ruling was in response to a reference by the High Court seeking clarification of the interpretation of European law emanating from EU Directive 2008/94EC on the protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer. ...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (21 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Community Employment (CE) is a non-statutory scheme put in place to support persons who are long-term unemployed and other vulnerable groups to gain the confidence and skills to re-enter the labour market. Schemes are sponsored by local community and voluntary groups who provide valuable support services to local communities. These sponsoring organisations employ supervisory staff to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Health Services (21 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: This is a matter for my colleague, the Minister of Health.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (21 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Carer's allowance (CA) is in payment to the person concerned since 16 June 2005 in respect of one care recipient. I confirm that my department received an application for CA on 11 March 2016 from the person concerned in respect of a second care recipient. The application was referred to a local social welfare investigative officer (SWI) on 22 June 2016 to assess the level of care being...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (21 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I confirm that my department received an application for carer's allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 21 June 2016. Unfortunately, there are currently delays in the processing of new applications. Additional resources have been provided to the CA section in order to improve the waiting times for new applications and they are working hard to make this happen. Frequently, delays are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (21 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 16 June 2016. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Social Protection. These papers have been received in the Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (21 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I confirm that my department received an application for carer's allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 7 April 2016. Additional information in relation to the person's application, which is necessary in order to make a decision but which was omitted from the application, has been requested by a deciding officer on 22 June 2016. Once the information is received from the person...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (21 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 7 December 2015. Carer's Allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment, made to persons habitually resident in the State, who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has a disability such that they require that level of care. The requirement for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Appeals (21 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 8 July 2016. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these papers have been received from the Department, the case in question will be referred...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Primary Medical Certificates Applications (21 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: This is a matter for my colleague, the Minister of Health.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (21 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The application for carer's allowance (CA) in respect of the person concerned was awarded on 8 July 2016 in respect of second care recipient. The first payment of CA at the higher rate of payment issued to the person's nominated bank account on 14 July 2016. Arrears of allowance due from 4 February 2016 to 13 July 2016 have also issued to the bank. The person concerned was notified of these...