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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: This application for carer’s allowance was awarded on 1st November 2012 and a letter issued to the person in question notifying them of the decision and how the rate was arrived at. The person in question was assessed with a weekly means of €202.18 per week and so is therefore entitled to carer’s allowance at a rate of €9.00 per week with an increase for two...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on 2nd July 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: Family Income Supplement Applications (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: The Department is committed to providing a quality service to all its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on entitlement are made as quickly as possible. In the case of the person concerned his family income supplement (FIS) payment expired on the 29 August 2012. His renewal application has recently been awarded from 30 August 2012 to 28...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 9th May 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 25th July...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on 17th 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: Disability Allowance Appeals (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 26th April 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 11th...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on 8 March 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: Carer's Allowance Applications (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on 13th September 2011. This application was referred to one of the Department’s medical assessors who found that the carees in question were not medically eligible for carer’s allowance. It was further decided that full-time care and attention was not being provided...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on 24th February 2012. The medical assessment has been completed. The application is currently with a social welfare investigative officer for confirmation that all the conditions for receipt of carer’s allowance are satisfied. Once the investigative officer has completed...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Applications (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: An application for the back to school clothing and footwear allowance was received from the customer concerned on 27 June 2012. The application was processed on 18 July 2012 and was disallowed as the person’s means exceed the income limit for their family size. The income limit for the person concerned is €593.40 while their household income was assessed at €609.28....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. The overall aim is to provide short term assistance, and not to act as an alternative to the other social housing schemes...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. The overall aim is to provide short term assistance, and not to act as an alternative to the other social housing schemes...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: FÁS Training Courses (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 375 and 392 together. Tús, the community work placement initiative, came into operation in the middle of 2011. To date 6,617 people have completed or are currently on work placements. This figure includes supervisory/team leader positions. As a new initiative, Tús continues to be monitored and developed and to date has proven to be effective in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: Casual/part-time workers in receipt of a jobseeker payment receive payment on a weekly basis and this is based on the number of days which the customer has certified as unemployed in the previous week. The Department has no control over the payment frequencies used by employers to make payment of wages.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: The back to education allowance (BTEA) is a second chance education opportunities scheme that enables those in receipt of certain social welfare payments to continue to receive a payment while pursuing an approved full-time education course that leads to a higher qualification than that already held. It is my intention to retain the requirement to be attending a full time course of study on...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Applications (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: My Department will spend almost €215 million in 2012 on the fuel allowance scheme benefitting some 400,000 people. The cost of this scheme has increased by over 160% since 2005 when 265,000 people were in receipt at a cost of €82 million. The current fuel season commenced in October this year and will run for 26 weeks until April 2013. The fuel allowance assists pensioners and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Nov 2012)

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 on 25 October 2012, allowed the appeal of the person concerned. The person concerned has been notified of the Appeals Officer decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: Section 318 of the Social Welfare Act provides that the Chief Appeals Officer may, following review, revise any decision of an appeals officer where it appears to her that the decision was erroneous by reason of some mistake having been made in relation to the law or the facts. Where a section 318 review is sought, the case will be examined the Chief Appeals Officer. In many cases,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: This application was received on 26th April 2012. Further medical evidence was submitted on 23rd October 2012. Once this evidence has been assessed by a medical assessor and a deciding officer has carried out all the necessary investigations, a decision will issue directly to the person in question.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: The back to education allowance (BTEA) is a second chance education opportunities scheme that enables those in receipt of certain social welfare payments to continue to receive a payment while pursuing an approved full-time education course that leads to a higher qualification than that already held. While provisional approval for BTEA may issue to an applicant, in order to award and put a...