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- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: Community Employment (CE) provides a range of supports to services in the health and social care related sector in the community. The main sponsors are organisations in the disability sector. The total number of ring-fenced places available to support health services is 2,800 places. Other health and social care places on CE are on non-specific or mixed CE schemes. These schemes are not...
- Written Answers — Rent Supplement Scheme: Rent Supplement Scheme (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: The person concerned has been awarded rent supplement from the commencement date of his tenancy. The person concerned is in receipt of his full entitlement to rent supplement based on his household circumstances. All arrears will issue accordingly.
- Written Answers — Jobseeker's Allowance: Jobseeker's Allowance (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: Payment of jobseeker's allowance to the person concerned was disallowed as his weekly means from casual employment were in excess of the statutory limit. If he suffers a reduction in his level of employment he should re-apply for jobseeker's allowance.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: Arrears due to the person concerned will issue by cheque this week.
- Written Answers — Rent Supplement Scheme: Rent Supplement Scheme (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 15 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 11th May...
- Written Answers — Rent Supplement Scheme: Rent Supplement Scheme (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 127 and 143 together. The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income 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 aim is to provide short term assistance, and not to act...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: The Department is committed to delivering the best possible service to its customers and to utilising the potential of modern technology and available delivery channels in meeting this objective. To this end, a new application has been developed and launched early in 2011 which allows for the automatic issue of contribution statements where the person's record is in order and does not...
- Written Answers — Domiciliary Care Allowance: Domiciliary Care Allowance (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received on the 2nd July 2012. This application has been forwarded to one of the Department's Medical Assessors for their medical opinion. Upon receipt of this opinion, a decision will issue to the customer. Currently, it can take up to 8 weeks to process an application for DCA.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 4 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 27th April...
- Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: The Department does not have any existing or planned contracts with the company in question for the provision of labour market activation services.
- Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 132 and 136 together. The â¬100 rate of jobseeker's allowance was introduced for claimants aged under 20 in April 2009, and this rate was applied to claimants aged up to 21 from December 2009. The â¬100 rate does not apply to certain categories of claimant including: · claimants with a qualified child; · those transferring to Jobseeker's Allowance...
- Written Answers — Rent Supplement Scheme: Rent Supplement Scheme (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income 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 aim is to provide short term assistance, and not to act as an alternative to the other social housing schemes...
- Written Answers — Mortgage Interest Supplement: Mortgage Interest Supplement (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: The purpose of mortgage interest supplement is to provide short-term income support to eligible people who are unable to meet their mortgage interest repayments in respect of a house which is their sole place of residence. The Government has provided approximately â¬51 million for this scheme in 2012. There are currently approximately 17,600 mortgage interest supplement recipients of which...
- Written Answers — Mortgage Interest Supplement: Mortgage Interest Supplement (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: The purpose of mortgage interest supplement (MIS) is to provide short-term income support to eligible people who are unable to meet their mortgage interest repayments in respect of a house which is their sole place of residence. The supplement assists with the interest portion of the mortgage repayments only. There are currently 17,600 persons in receipt of mortgage interest supplement, with...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: Community Employment is an employment programme which helps long-term unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work routine. The programme assists them to enhance and develop both their technical and personal skills which can then be used in the workplace. Reductions in training and material grants were announced as...
- Written Answers — Rural Social Scheme: Rural Social Scheme (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: The purpose of the rural social scheme is to provide income support for farmers and fisherpersons who have an entitlement to specified social welfare payments. Persons are engaged for 191â2 hours per week to provide certain services of benefit to rural communities. The rural social scheme currently provides work opportunities for around 2,600 participants and 130 supervisory staff. I...
- Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: The person in question has been awarded carer's allowance. She received her first payment on 28th June 2012.
- Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: I confirm that the department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the person in question. On completion of the necessary investigations relating to all aspects of the case a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.
- Written Answers — Child Benefit: Child Benefit (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: In accordance with Social Welfare Legislation, child benefit is paid up to and including the month of a child's 16th birthday, and continues to the month of the 18th birthday only, provided the child is in full-time education. In order to continue payment to the person concerned, the school/college that the child is attending must certify the date of completion of education on the...
- Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (12 Jul 2012)
Joan Burton: I confirm that the department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the person in question. On completion of the necessary investigations relating to all aspects of the case a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.