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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Department of Social and Family Affairs has a range of employment and education supports available to people in receipt of social welfare payments. These initiatives are designed to assist people to return to the active labour force. The main supports available are the back to work allowance, the short-term enterprise allowance and the back to education allowance schemes. At week ended...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the Department by the Community Welfare Service of the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. It is intended as a short-term income support to eligible tenants whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs. In order to respond effectively to the growing numbers on the Live Register and the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned applied for jobseeker's benefit on 25 May, 2009. However, his claim was closed as he failed to provide details regarding his employment. It is open to him to re-apply and he should contact his local Social Welfare Office in this regard.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The number of Illness Benefit (previously known as Disability Benefit) cases currently with the Chief State Solicitors Office (CSSO) at various stages of the criminal prosecution process is twenty. Ten of these cases were submitted in the first ten months of 2009. In addition, a further seven cases are currently being considered by the Department for criminal proceedings. The number of...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Payment of disability allowance, to the person concerned, was refused following an examination by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that she was medically unsuitable for the allowance. An appeal was opened, and in the context of that appeal, her case was reviewed by a second Medical Assessor who also expressed the opinion that she was medically unsuitable for...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that, in accordance with statutory requirements, the relevant Departmental papers and comments on the grounds of appeal in the case of the person concerned have been sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer for early consideration. The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an office of the Department that...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible persons living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from another source. Data is not available on a county basis. The following table shows expenditure in each of the past 5 years by HSE...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes mortgage interest supplement, is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive (HSE). The Department has no function in deciding entitlement in individual cases. Mortgage interest is defined in Section 187 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (as amended). In...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that, in accordance with statutory requirements, the relevant Departmental papers and comments on the grounds of appeal in the case of the person concerned have been sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer for early consideration. The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an office of the Department that...
- Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Family Support Agency operates the Family and Community Services Resource Centre (FRC) Programme, the scheme of grants to voluntary and community organisations providing marriage, relationship, child and bereavement counselling services and the Family Mediation Service. The project referred to by the Deputy is not funded by the Family Support Agency. Having examined the details of the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: An Post provides an agency service for the Department for the delivery of payments to customers. The current contract with An Post was renewed in December 2008 for a period of five years ending on 31st December 2013. In 2008 An Post were paid â¬53.5 million based on transaction volumes of some 37,300,000. In 2009 An Post will receive approximately â¬52m based on estimated transaction...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible persons living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from another source. The Health Service Executive (HSE) advised that rent supplement was refused on the basis that the person concerned...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Budget 2007 provided for new arrangements whereby people in receipt of a social welfare payment, other than carer's allowance or benefit, who are also providing someone with full-time care and attention, can retain their main welfare payment and receive a half- rate carer's allowance. Similarly, people currently in receipt of a carer's allowance, who may have an underlying eligibility for...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes mortgage interest supplement, is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. A mortgage interest supplement may be paid in respect of mortgage interest only, to eligible people who are unable to meet their mortgage interest repayments in respect of a house which is their...
- Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The forthcoming budget is being framed at a very difficult time for families. These are particularly tough times for the more than 400,000 people on the live register - some of whom are working greatly reduced hours and some of whom have lost their jobs. Many of them have long years of employment behind them and never thought that they would be out of work. Many are young graduates who...
- Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (12 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The most recent estimates indicate that: The abolition of the â¬127 PRSI-Free Allowance for Class A contributors would yield some â¬350 million additional contribution income in a full year. An increase of 1% in the employers PRSI rate for Class A contributors is estimated to yield some â¬482 million additional contribution income in a full year. The abolition of the PRSI ceiling would...
- Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (12 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Workers are insured under the Social Welfare Acts as either employed or self-employed contributors. All workers, both employed and self-employed, are obliged to pay PRSI contributions as a percentage of their personal reckonable income. PRSI Class A is the standard class paid by the majority of employees. In addition to Class A there are a range of other classes for different categories of...
- Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (12 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The following table provides data on the total number of contributors to the Social Insurance Fund together with a breakdown of this figure by PRSI Class type. The figures for 2007 represent the most recent end-of-year returns received by the Department from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners for both employees and self-employed contributors. A breakdown of the 2008 figures will be...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The statistics requested by the Deputy are not readily available in the format he requires. I do not propose to divert staff and resources to compile them.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Nov 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned has been awarded a farm assist payment from 26 October 2009 at the weekly rate of â¬339.90. A payment of â¬853.10 covering the period from 26 October 2009 to 10 November 2009 will issue to him today.