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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The daily rate of payment of benefit for the contingency of unemployment has always been calculated at one sixth of the weekly rate. This delineation reflects the working patterns that have traditionally applied in the labour market and particularly accorded with the usual experiences of persons who accessed benefit payments during periods of unemployment. Increasingly in recent years the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: To qualify for jobseeker's benefit, a person must be available for and looking for full-time work, satisfy the PRSI contribution conditions, and have a loss of employment. Once a person satisfies these conditions, jobseeker's benefit is paid for the days that they are unemployed. For each day of unemployment in the week (Monday to Saturday), the person is paid one-sixth of their weekly rate...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Department has received an appeal for back to school clothing and footwear allowance from the person concerned and will inform her of its decision shortly.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: I do not have specific details on this particular case. However, redundancy rebate/lump sum claims received at the beginning of May 2011 are currently being processed.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 127 and 139 together. The Labour Court recommended in July 2008 that an agreed pension scheme should be introduced for community employment (CE) scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors, and that such a scheme should be adequately funded by FÁS. Notwithstanding the positions of the Department in rejecting that liability for these costs falls to be met...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 16 November 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Community Welfare Services on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred in due course to an...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: A redundancy lump sum claim in respect of the person concerned was received on 30 May 2011. Redundancy lump sum claims received at the beginning of May 2011 are currently being processed.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the disability allowance claim of the person concerned was disallowed following an assessment by a Medical Assessor who expressed the opinion that he was medically unsuitable for the allowance. An appeal was registered on 02 November 2011 and in accordance with the statutory procedures the relevant department papers and the comments of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the invalidity pension claim of the person concerned was disallowed following an assessment by a Medical Assessor who expressed the opinion that she was medically unsuitable for the allowance. An appeal was registered on 14 November 2011 and in accordance with the statutory procedures the relevant department papers and the comments of the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received on 6 March 2010. This application was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that the child was not medically eligible for DCA. A letter issued on 22 April 2010 advising of the decision to refuse the allowance. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal against this decision and she was...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Nov 2011)

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 when the intake rose to 32,432. This has significantly...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Department is committed to providing a quality service to all its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on entitlement are made as quickly as possible. The average waiting time for new family income supplement (FIS) claims at the end of October is 20 weeks. The waiting time for renewal FIS claims is currently between 10 – 11 weeks. At...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the Jobseeker's Allowance and Supplementary Welfare Allowance appeals from the person concerned have been referred to an Appeals Officer who proposes to hold an oral hearing in these cases. 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...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: When the JobBridge Scheme was launched on 1 July temporary measures were put in place to facilitate Work Placement Programme (WPP) participants, who were eligible, to convert their WPP placements into JobBridge internships. This became known as the WPP Conversion Process. The following two rules applied to this conversion process: · If a participant was on a WPP for less than four months...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The estimate for my Department in 2011 provides for expenditure of over €1.1 billion on the one-parent family payment (OFP). For the purposes of one-parent family payment, there is no entitlement where earnings exceed a threshold of €425 gross per week. Where earnings are less than €425, the first €146.50 is disregarded and half of the balance is assessed as means. The rate of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all the evidence, including that adduced at oral hearing, has allowed the appeal of the person concerned. The person concerned has been notified of the decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: From 1 January 2011 policy and funding responsibility for FÁS functions in relation to employment and community employment services was transferred to the Department of Social Protection in accordance with the provisions of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010. FÁS remains responsible for the day to day operation of community employment in accordance with the terms of a...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: Community Employment is an employment and training programme which helps long-term unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a work routine. The programme assists by enhancing and developing a person's technical and personal skills which can then be used in the workplace. The criteria for participating on community...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: To date a total of 2,712 individuals have commenced a JobBridge internship throughout Ireland and, of these, 48 are based in County Carlow. The number of Tús placements filled nationally to date is 1,795 of which 16 are in County Carlow.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: Following on from the transfer of the Community Welfare Service from the Health Services Executive (HSE) to the Department of Social Protection, with effect from Saturday 1st October, legislation was commenced which provides that appeals for supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) will be made to the Social Welfare Appeals Office. Up to now, the legislation provided for a 2 step process, first...