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Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 23 January 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. When received, the appeal in question will be referred in due course to an...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: The Department of Social Protection operates a range of employment support measures designed to encourage and support social welfare recipients of working age to reduce their dependency on welfare payments. I understand that the Deputy is interested in the position relating to entitlement to secondary benefits Participants on the RSS, Tús and CE are entitled to continue to receive any...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 1 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 on 23...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: The person concerned was refused carer's allowance on the grounds that the care recipient is not so disabled as to require full-time care and attention as prescribed in regulations. He was notified of this decision and the reason for it. Additional medical evidence was received and forwarded to the Department's medical assessor for consideration. However, this information did not alter the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 14 January 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 30...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an oral hearing of the appeal of the person concerned took place on 7 February 2012 and the Appeals Officer is now considering the appeal in the light of all the evidence submitted, including that adduced at the hearing. The person concerned will be notified of the Appeals Officer decision when the appeal has been determined. The Social...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who proposes to hold an oral hearing in this case. There has been a very significant increase in the number of appeals received by the Social Welfare Appeals Office since 2007 when the intake was 14,070 to 2010 and 2011 when the intake rose to 32,432 and 31,241...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: Five redundancy rebate claims in respect of the company concerned were received on 28 July 2011. Redundancy rebate claims received in May 2011 are currently being processed.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the Redundancy Payments Scheme is to compensate workers, under the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 2011, for the loss of their jobs by reason of redundancy. Under the Redundancy Payments Acts an eligible employee is entitled to two weeks statutory redundancy payment for every year of service, plus a bonus week. Compensation is based on the worker's length of reckonable...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer having fully considered all the available evidence disallowed the appeal of the person concerned by way of summary decision. The person concerned has been notified of the Appeals Officer decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who proposes to hold an oral hearing in this case. There has been a very significant increase in the number of appeals received by the Social Welfare Appeals Office since 2007 when the intake was 14,070 to 2010 and 2011 when the intake rose to 32,432 and 31,241...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that the Partial Capacity Benefit scheme was formally launched on Monday, 13 February 2012. Full details of the scheme have been published on the Department's website. The Partial Capacity Benefit scheme is open to people who are in receipt of Invalidity Pension (IP) or who have been in receipt of Illness Benefit (IB) for a minimum of six months....

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: On 27 April 2010 the person concerned was refused carer's allowance on the grounds that the care recipient was not so disabled as to require full time care and attention as prescribed in social welfare legislation. She was notified of this decision and the reason for it. The person concerned appealed this decision and the matter was brought before an appeal hearing of the Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy is not routinely collated by my Department as not all schemes register the details of the client's nationality. If a person has paid the required PRSI class, in non-EU cases had a valid Work Permit and satisfies all the qualifying conditions of the scheme (including the Habitual Residence Condition) they are treated as equally as all other claimants....

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 24th October 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Designated Person who decided the case on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers were received in the Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: There are currently 29 Community Employment Projects with a total of 743 participants and 44 supervisors in place in County Louth. Projects run for a 52 week period and contracts are renewed at various stages throughout the year. Attached is a breakdown of Co Louth projects showing the number of participants, project start and finish dates, the name and location of each project and the...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: Following the reductions in the CE training and materials grant announced in the Budget, the Department of Social Protection commenced a review of the financial resources of individual schemes. This review is scheduled to be completed by the end of March All sponsors have been contacted by Department officers at local level to brief them on the review, discuss their returns and deal wit h...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, the Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off expenditure, which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. However, the scheme is not intended to cover circumstances where another Government Department or Agency has a primary responsibility such as...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: Taking account of the unusual circumstances of retained fire brigade personnel and general efforts to develop and standardise our jobseeker schemes, a departmental group was established in late 2011 to examine the position of these workers vis-À-vis jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance. Deliberations on this issue are currently being finalised. My officials will be in touch with...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 21 March 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 on 28th...