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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 27th August 2012. This application was referred to one of the Department’s medical assessors who was of the opinion that the caree in question was not medically eligible for carer’s allowance. A letter issued on the 26th November 2012 refusing the allowance. The...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: The European Commission has made a proposal for a Council Recommendation on a Youth Guarantee. In the form proposed by the Commission, the Recommendation would be for Member States to ensure that all young people receive a quality offer of employment, continuing education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education. To be...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 29th November 2012. 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 received, the case in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer who will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: To qualify for a widow’s, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s contributory pension, you must satisfy certain social insurance conditions and be a widow, widower or (since 1 January 2011) a surviving civil partner and not in a cohabiting relationship. The pension remains payable while you remain widowed or a surviving civil partner. Section 124 (3) of the Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: To qualify for the Momentum scheme, a customer must 1.Be unemployed and on the Live Register for 12 months (312 days) or longer and 2.Be in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance/Benefit or credited contributions for 12 months or longer and 3.Be actively seeking work. Periods spent on JobBridge, Back to Education Allowance, VTOS, full time FÁS/Fáilte Ireland Training courses,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of the person concerned was received on the 18th May 2012. The application was referred to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors, who, having examined all the information supplied, considered that the child was not medically eligible for the allowance. A letter issued on the 16th July 2012 advising of the decision. In...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 20th November 2012, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Schemes for the Elderly (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: The household benefits package comprises the electricity or gas allowances, the telephone allowance and the free television licence. The package is generally available to people living in the State, aged 66 years or over who are in receipt of a social welfare type payment or who satisfy a means test. The package is also available to carers and people with disabilities under the age of 66...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 16th January 2013, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 507 and 508 together. The community employment programme, the work placement programme and JobBridge, the national internship scheme provide the best options for a person with a disability and on a disability allowance payment to engage in work placement and training activity. Eligibility condition in respect of both initiatives can be accessed online or by...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 28th January 2013, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received on the 30th July 2012. This application was referred to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors who found that the child was not medically eligible for the allowance. A letter issued on the 19th September 2012 advising of the decision. In the case of an application which is refused on medical grounds the applicant may...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (5 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 28th January 2013, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (6 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: The Department of Social Protection provides a broad range of employment and related supports to persons who are unemployed. These range from internships under JobBridge, work placements and training under Tús and community employment respectively and educational supports in the form of the back to education allowance and the back to enterprise allowance for those wishing to pursue...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (6 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer having fully considered all the available evidence disallowed the appeal of the person concerned by way of summary decision. The person concerned has been notified of the Appeals Officer decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (6 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that there were 1,795 carer’s allowance appeals on hands on 1 February, 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Applications (6 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: An application for one parent family payment was received in respect of this person and a full investigation, including means assessment, was initiated by a Social Welfare Inspector. However, when the customer relocated in August, 2012, the case was then re-assigned to a local inspector for a further report given the changed residential circumstances. On foot of this report, the Deciding...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (6 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, the Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off, exceptional and unforeseen expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. There is no automatic entitlement to a payment. ENPs are payable at the discretion of the officers administering the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff (6 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: One member of staff in my Department, the Chief Medical Advisor, has been rehired on a temporary contract on a payscale of €93,197 to €113,503. Payment of his pension is abated for the period of this temporary contract. The decision to re-employ the Chief Medical Advisor was taken due to his specific skills and his involvement in the policy reform of the illness related...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (6 Feb 2013)

Joan Burton: Payment of disability allowance, to the person concerned, was refused by a Deciding Officer following an assessment by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that he was medically unsuitable for disability allowance. An appeal was opened and in the context of that appeal, his case was reviewed by a second Medical Assessor who also expressed the opinion that he was...