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Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: Domiciliary Care Allowance has been paid to the person concerned and all arrears due were issued on 10th May 2012.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 17th April 2012. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer who will make a...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received on 8th October 2011. 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 6th January 2012 advising of the decision. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal against this decision. As part of the appeal, her...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term 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 overall aim is to provide short term assistance, and not to act as an alternative to the other social housing schemes...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: There is a formal induction period of training for new Medical Assessor recruits, this runs from 6-8 weeks and covers all illness-related schemes, including DCA. Medical Assessors education is continuously updated and enhanced by frequent case presentations and discussion, attendance at in-house and external conferences which are addressed by relevant specialists, including child and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 319 and 327 together. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that Appeals Officers are statutorily appointed by the Minister for Social Protection and exercise their functions in a quasi-judicial manner. Entitlement to social welfare payments is subject to satisfying conditions which are provided for in the Social Welfare Acts and in Regulations...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: Rent supplement can be reinstated for the person concerned when the Department has verified that she is not working full time. The Department has only been provided with one payslip to suggest the person concerned is not working full time. Further clarification has been sought in order to ensure an accurate reassessment can be carried out on the file.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: The Department is committed to delivering the best possible service to its customers. In the interests of fairness and equity applications are processed in order of the date on which they were received in the Department. A major service delivery modernisation project is underway to address the large increase in the claim-load and to improve the efficiency of administration of the carer's...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 322 and 328 together. Creating jobs and tackling poverty are two of the key challenges that Ireland now faces. It is essential, therefore, that our tax and social protection systems play their part in addressing these issues and ensuring work is worthwhile. To this end, last year I established an Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare with the aim of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: Deserted wife's benefit is a payment made to a woman deserted by her husband. Entitlement to payment is based on social insurance contributions paid by the wife or her husband. The deserted wife's benefit scheme was closed to new applications with effect from 2 January 1997, when the one-parent family payment was introduced. The purpose of the household benefits package is to facilitate...

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to assist with reasonable accommodation costs of eligible people living in private rented accommodation who are unable to provide for their accommodation costs from their own resources and who do not have accommodation available to them from another source. The overall aim is to provide short term assistance,...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received from the person in question on 28th July 2011. 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 5th October 2011 refusing DCA. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal against the decision. He was...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 12th December 2011. 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 and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 27th 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 and the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 28th November 2011. 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 and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received on 12th September 2011. 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 15th November 2011 advising of the decision. On 18th April 2012, the person concerned requested a review of the decision and the case has been...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, an exceptional needs payment (ENP) may be made to help meet an essential once-off cost, such as a payment of a rent deposit, which the applicant is unable to meet out of his/her own resources. There is no automatic entitlement to an exceptional needs payment and each application is determined by the person administering the scheme...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: I have been advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that statistics are not maintained on a county-by-county basis. Therefore, it is not in a position to supply the information sought by the Deputy in relation to counties Louth and Meath. Based on figures for the first four months of 2012, the overall average waiting time for appeals was 40.5 weeks for those appeals that required an...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: The number of jobseeker's allowance applications that were disallowed between 1 January 2012 and 30 April 2012 on the basis of a failure to satisfy the habitual residence condition was 609. The monthly breakdown of this figure is as follows: January, 138; February, 189; March, 158; and April, 124.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jun 2012)

Joan Burton: The person concerned has been awarded rent supplement in full from the commencement of her tenancy and is in receipt of her full entitlement to rent supplement based on her household circumstances.