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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (16 Oct 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 Payments (16 Oct 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: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question. The person concerned was refused carers allowance on the grounds 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, the reasons for it and of her right of review or appeal on the 4th...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 308 and 309 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Sector Staff Career Breaks (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 310, 375 and 376 together. There are currently 91 staff of my Department availing of career breaks, including career breaks which were granted under the special incentivised career break scheme 2009. A breakdown by grade is as follows: Grade Number Assistant Principal 1 Higher Executive Officer 10 Executive Officer 12 Staff Officer 5 Clerical...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 21st December 2011. The application is with a deciding officer for a decision. It will be processed as quickly as possible and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Appeals (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: The person concerned appealed the decision to disallow her one parent family payment claim. Her claim was subsequently reviewed by a Social Welfare Inspector, and the decision to disallow her claim remained unchanged. The appeal will now progress through the Social Welfare Appeals Office.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Care Services (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: The total expenditure on the key illness and disability payments administered by the Department – namely illness benefit, invalidity pension and disability allowance amounted to some €10.6 billion in the period from 2008 to 2011. Of that amount, some €3.6 billion relates to illness benefit and the estimated cost of the scheme in 2012 is €847 million. Against...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: Young people, typically, suffer disproportionately from job losses in recessions as they tend to have entered employment more recently, are more likely to hold temporary contracts and to be employed in cyclically sensitive industries than older workers. The Quarterly National Household survey indicated that there were 66,000 young unemployed aged 15–24 in Q2 2012 – representing...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: The JobBridge Scheme has made significant progress to-date since it came into operation on the 1st July 2011. 11,010 internships have commenced to date with 5,082 participants currently on an internship as at 11th October 2012 and 2,253 internship opportunities presently advertised on . Our records indicate that a significant proportion of individuals who have completed their JobBridge...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: It is an objective of my Department, and the agencies under its aegis, to provide a quality customer service in both Irish and English in response to customer demand. It is not possible to completely isolate all of the costs for the provision of services in the Irish language within the total cost of service provision in every instance. The cost of providing some elements of service through...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all the evidence, disallowed the appeal of the person concerned by way of summary decision. Under Social Welfare legislation, the decision of the Appeals Officer is final and conclusive and may only be reviewed by the Appeals Officer in the light of new evidence or new facts. Following the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: An application for disability allowance was received from the person concerned on 16th March 2012. This application was referred to one of the Department’s medical assessors who found that the person concerned was not medically eligible for disability allowance. Further medical evidence has been received in support of the application and is under consideration by our medical...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 10th April 2012. The application is with a deciding officer for a decision. It will be processed as quickly as possible and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 05 July 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 31 July 2012...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 7th July 2011. The application is currently with a social welfare investigative officer for means assessment and confirmation that all the conditions for receipt of carer’s allowance are satisfied. It will be processed as quickly as possible and the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: The person concerned has not been refused rent supplement. A request for further information to support his application for rent supplement was sent to him on 4th May 2012 and a second request for the same information was sent on the 2nd July 2012. The Department has not received the required information to date. A decision will be made on his application when the information has been...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: Payment of supplementary welfare allowance (rent supplement) was disallowed by a Designated Person of the Department as the person concerned failed to provide up to date information as requested on two occasions by the Department. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 13th July 2012. It is a statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: The person concerned applied for disability allowance on 14 September 2011. The medical evidence supplied with the claim was referred to one of the department’s medical assessors who was of the opinion, based on the information supplied, that the person concerned was not medically suitable for disability allowance. In addition, the person concerned was assessed with means in excess of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Issues (16 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 327 to 332, inclusive, together. All workers pay PRSI on their earnings from employment. If an employee has earned income from self-employment, PRSI as a self-employed contributor is also payable on the profits from that self-employed activity as well as from any other unearned income the individual may have. Similarly a self-employed contributor (who is...