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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received on the 24th April 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 12th June 2012 advising of the decision. The person concerned requested a review of the decision and the case has been forwarded to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: As the Deputy will be aware the Pathways to Work document states that the introduction of the new Intreo service is a multi-annual project. The first ten Intreo offices went live in 2012. These first ten offices were Sligo, Arklow, Tallaght, Kings Inns, Ballymun, Buncrana, Coolock, Dundalk, Finglas and Killarney. The Intreo Services will be rolled out to all of the Department’s...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: Any person who meets the eligibility criteria for Community Employment (CE) is free to apply for a CE placement. The general requirement is for a person to have been in receipt of a CE-qualifying payment, such as jobseeker's allowance, for 12 months or more and be between 25 and 65 years of age. Another perhaps more appropriate option given that the person maybe job ready is to consider the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 17th January 2013. 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 13th...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (12 Mar 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 on 27th March 2012. The person concerned has been notified of the arrangements for the hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 9th February 2012. The application is currently with a social welfare investigative officer for a means assessment and confirmation that all the conditions for receipt of carer’s allowance are satisfied. Once the investigative officer has completed and submitted the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: A new application for rent supplement was received by my Department from the person concerned on 14th February 2013. It is being examined and assessed at present and a decision will issue shortly. It should be noted that on 21st February he was paid rent supplement for the period until 28th February 2013, after he had moved house. This payment of €211.30 can be used to offset his...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Numbers (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: I am informed that at the end of February the live register stood at 428,876 of which 76,829 (17.9%) were non-Irish nationals. A breakdown of the non-Irish nationals into European Union nationals and the largest represented Non-European Union Nationals is in the attached tabular statement. With regard to the total amount of expenditure in my Department associated with non-Irish nationals on...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: Given the scale of the unemployment crisis, the key objective of activation policy and labour market initiatives is to offer assistance to those most in need of support in securing work and achieving financial self-sufficiency. This policy objective prioritises scarce resources to those in receipt of qualifying welfare payments. Accordingly the employment services and schemes provided by...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, a supplement may be paid in respect of exceptional heating needs where the claimant satisfies the general conditions of entitlement to SWA. In order to qualify for a heating supplement, the applicant must live alone or with a qualified adult or child/children and must have exceptional heating needs due to ill-health or infirmity. In...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 11th June 2012. The application was awarded on 11th of March 2013 and the first payment will issue to the person’s nominated bank account, payable from 14th of March 2013. Arrears of allowance due from 14th of June 2012 to 13th of March 2013 have issued to the person...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Redundancy Rebates (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: Responsibility for the processing of claims under the redundancy payments scheme transferred from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation (DJEI) to the Department of Social Protection in January 2011. In April 2012 a Chartered Accountant, acting on behalf of company concerned contacted the Department in regard to a redundancy rebate claim in respect of a redundancy which...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Ministerial Appointments (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the Social Welfare Tribunal is to deal with cases where entitlement to Jobseeker’s Benefit or Allowance is refused due to an involvement in a trade dispute. Due to its structure and purpose the revised Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies does not apply to the Social Welfare Tribunal. The Chairperson is sourced by the Department of Social Protection by...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: Given the scale of the unemployment crisis, the key objective of activation policy and labour market initiatives is to offer assistance to those most in need of support in securing work and achieving financial self-sufficiency. This policy objective prioritises scarce resources to those in receipt of qualifying welfare payments. Accordingly the employment services and schemes provided by...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Appeals (12 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer having fully considered all the available evidence, including that adduced at oral hearing, allowed the appeal of the person concerned. The person concerned was notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision on 8th March 2013. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (7 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 12th March 2012. 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 1 March...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Appeals (7 Mar 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 24 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 and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (7 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: The Department is only aware of two families that have voluntarily given up entitlement to child benefit by way of submitting a clear request that payment be discontinued. However, it may be possible that others have chosen not to respond to correspondence and have, by default, discontinued claiming child benefit.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (7 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: The person concerned made a claim for jobseeker’s credits on 7 November 2011. His claim was automatically closed by the computer system from 15 July 2012 as he did not attend his Social Welfare Local Office to sign on in order to certify that he was still unemployed, despite being requested by letter to do so. Any documentation received from the person concerned after his claim was...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Mar 2013)

Joan Burton: The person concerned is in receipt of one parent family payment and rent supplement from my Department. She should contact her local social welfare office or Citizens' Information Centre whereupon her full details can be provided and any further possible entitlements outlined in this regard.