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Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (10 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The claim for illness benefit, by the person concerned, was disallowed by a Deciding Officer of the Department following an examination by a Medical Assessor who expressed the opinion that she was capable of work. Her application for invalidity pension was similarly disallowed. She appealed this decision and was examined by a second Medical Assessor who also expressed the opinion that she...

Written Answers — Money Advice and Budgeting Service: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (10 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: There are currently two MABS offices in north Tipperary: Nenagh and Thurles. There are no plans to open a MABS office in Roscrea. Members of the public can get money advice, assistance and support from MABS through three channels: · The MABS National Telephone Helpline – LoCall 1890 283438, is available from 9am to 8pm Monday to Friday; · The MABS website www.mabs.ie provides online...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (10 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: Disability Allowance is a weekly Allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged over 16 and under 66. The disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, a means test and a habitual residency test. The person concerned applied for Disability Allowance on 6 March 2009. He was examined by a Medical Assessor who...

Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (10 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The Family Support Agency funds the Family and Community Services Resource Centre Programme. Following the closure of a Kilkenny-based Family Resource Centre (FRC) in 2007, research was carried out to identify where core funding could be re-directed to another community in County Kilkenny. The research recommended that the town referred to by the Deputy was the area most in need of a Family...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (10 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The amount of overpayments attributed to fraud and monies recovered for years 2004 to 2008 requested by the Deputy is set-down in the tabular statements hereunder. Overpayments are categorised and reported by fraud, customer/third party error, Departmental error and Estates. The most common method of recovering overpayments is through instalments rather than in a single lump sum. Generally...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The statistics requested by the Deputy are not available. However, statistics relating to household type and duration of entitlement for jobseeker's benefit and allowance are contained in the Social Welfare Services (SWS) Statistical Information Report published annually by the Department. I am making available relevant extracts of the 2008 report, which is available on the Department's...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: Under the back to education scheme an applicant can pursue a full-time second or third level course up to and including a Higher Diploma in any discipline and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education. Full-time day undergraduate courses in another EU country which are recognised by the Department of Education and Science for Higher Education Grant purposes may be considered for the back to...

Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (10 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 346 and 347 together. The following table sets out the information requested by the Deputy. PRSI Contributions & Balance in the Social Insurance Fund Year Actual PRSI Receipts€000 Estimated PRSI Receipts€000 SIF Balance€000 2005 6,109,880 2,400,284 2006 6,921,222 3,049,141 2007 7,722,010 3,632,298 2008 7,984,182 3,376,969 2009 5,050,340*...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The following table shows the number of recipients of rent supplement by primary social welfare payment. A breakdown of recipients by work status is not available. TABLE Number of Recipients of Rent Supplement by Primary Payment at 29 October 2009. Payment Type Recipients As % of Total State Pensions 1,566 1.7% Pre-Retirement Allowance 112 0.1% Widows and Widower's Pensions 414 0.5%...

Written Answers — National Carer's Strategy: National Carer's Strategy (5 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: During 2008 an interdepartmental group, chaired by the Department of the Taoiseach, with secretariat support provided by my Department, undertook work, including a public consultation process to develop a National Carers' Strategy. However, because of the prevailing economic situation, it was not possible to set targets or time lines which could be achieved. In that context, rather than...

Written Answers — Registration of Births: Registration of Births (5 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: I have had enquiries made with the HSE Civil Registration Service (Eastern Region) and I am informed that the position is that the mother of the person (details supplied) was in a legally subsisting marriage at the time of the birth. It appears that she informed the registrar that her legal spouse was not the father of the child and that the couple separated prior to the birth, albeit not by...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The amounts paid by the Department to the CIÉ group in respect of the Free Travel scheme from 2004 to 2008 are set out in the following table: Year Month Total (€) 2004 January 3,999,487 February 3,855,895 March 3,626,629 April 4,061,266 May 3,828,109 June 3,817,953 July 4,337,807 August 3,737,090 September 3,693,074 October 3,921,266 November 3,936,150 December...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (5 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 181 and 182 together. The National Employment Action Plan, operated jointly with FÁS, is the main activation measure for jobseekers. Under the plan, all persons between the ages of 18 and 65 years who are in receipt of jobseekers allowance or jobseekers benefit and approaching 3 months on the Live Register, are identified by the Department of Social and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to One-parent Family Payment for each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 (October) is given in the tables below as follows: Table 1- number of recipients and expenditure for each year Table 2- breakdown by gender Table 3– age profile Table 4- nationality/EEA status of current recipients Table 1 Number of Recipients and Expenditure Year...

Written Answers — Registration of Births: Registration of Births (5 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The current position in relation to birth registrations is that no man can be named as the father of a child in an entry unless he consents to do so or unless he is found to be the father of the child by the Courts, in proceedings relating to guardianship or maintenance or by way of a declaration of parentage, made under section 35 of the Status of Children Act, 1987. Under the provisions of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (5 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The claim for disability allowance, by the person concerned, was disallowed by a Deciding Officer of the Department from 7th October 2009 following an assessment by a Medical Assessor who expressed the opinion that she was not medically suitable. An appeal was opened on 13th October 2009 and the Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that, in accordance with statutory requirements, the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes rent supplement, is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive (HSE). The HSE has advised that it has increased the amount of rent supplement payable to the person concerned from €779.70 to €849 per month from March 2009. This is the maximum amount of rent supplement...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The Health Service Executive has advised that according to its records, an application for mortgage interest supplement has not been received from the person concerned. The Health Service Executive has also advised that the person concerned has been in receipt of rent supplement since 14th November 2001.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 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. The Health Service Executive has advised that according to its records, an application for mortgage interest supplement has not been received from the person concerned. It is open to the person...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (5 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that the relevant Departmental papers and comments of the Department have been received and the case has been referred to an Appeals Officer for consideration. The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an office of the Department that is independently responsible for determining appeals against decisions on social welfare entitlements.