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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. To qualify, the Carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing full-time care and attention, and must show that the care recipient requires full-time care and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Information regarding the terms and conditions of the Supplementary Pension provided to retired teachers is a matter for the Department of Education. The Department of Social Protection has no policy role in determining that a retired teacher should apply for a social welfare payment nor does it administer the supplementary pension. Any queries in this regard is a matter for the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Government acknowledges the valuable role that family carers play and is fully committed to supporting carers in that role. This commitment is recognised in both the Programme for Government and the National Carers’ Strategy. The main income supports to carers provided by my department are Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. The conditions attached to the payment of CA are consistent with the overall conditions that apply to social assistance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 771 and 772 together. The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) from late September to April, at an estimated cost of €382 million in 2024. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. Only one allowance is paid per household. The criteria for Fuel...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) from late September to April, at an estimated cost of €382 million in 2024. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. Only one allowance is paid per household. The criteria for Fuel Allowance are framed in order to direct the limited...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is payable in respect of a child aged under 16 who has a severe disability requiring continual or continuous care and attention substantially over and above the level of care and attention normally required by a child of the same age and the level of that disability is such that the child is likely to require this level of care and attention for at least 12...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Communications (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: For the purposes of this response, we have interpreted social media influencers as individuals who advertise, endorse or review goods or services on social media, in return for payment or other consideration. I can confirm that my Department has not engaged with any social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities as part of our campaigns. My...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Properties (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department is committed to working to ensure that services and information can be accessed, understood and used to the greatest extent possible by all people, regardless of their age, ability or disability. The Intreo Office on Grace Park Road in Athlone has automatic doors, and an elevator for customers to access services on different floors. The entrance is at the same level as the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Invalidity Pension (IP) is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work because of illness or incapacity and for no other reason and who satisfy the pay related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions. The person concerned is in receipt of Invalidity Pension since 13 October 2016. My department carries out periodic reviews to ensure continuing eligibility for the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: State pension non-contributory is a means-tested payment for people aged 66 and over, habitually residing in the State, who do not qualify for a state pension contributory, or who only qualify for a reduced rate contributory pension based on their social insurance record. For the purposes of the means test, cash income, including income from employment, foreign pensions, the value of any...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: As you will be aware, the Citizens Information Board (CIB) is the statutory body under the aegis of my Department which funds and supports the eight regional companies of the Citizens Information Service (CIS). I absolutely recognise and value the essential work carried out by staff of the CIS and their dedication to their role in ensuring that people have access to quality and independent...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Government is conscious of the recruitment and retention challenges in the home and community care sector and is supportive of properly informed measures to increase capacity in the sector. Towards this end it established a Strategic Workforce Advisory Group in 2022 specifically to look at the labour force challenges facing providers of home-care services. Following a consultation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned reached pension age on 3 October 2013. Her State Pension (Contributory) is awarded at the reduced weekly rate of €236.10. This is based on a total of 719 reckonable paid and credited contributions from 1978 to 2013 giving a yearly average of 21. I have introduced a number of reforms to the State Pension including a provision for people who have been caring for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is payable in respect of a child aged under 16 who has a severe disability requiring continual or continuous care and attention substantially in excess of the care and attention normally required by a child of the same age and the level of that disability is such that the child is likely to require this level of care and attention for at least 12 consecutive...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in-work support which provides an income top-up for employees on low earnings with children. To qualify for Working Family Payment, the customer must have at least one qualified child who normally resides with them and be working a minimum of 38 hours per fortnight in ongoing insurable employment. A review of WFP for the person concerned has been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Additional Needs Payments (ANP) are paid to people who have essential and exceptional needs that they cannot meet out of their weekly income. ANP is an overarching term used to refer to exceptional and urgent needs payments, and certain supplements. Complete applications are mostly finalised within 10 days and where it is clear that a person has an immediate need, every effort is made to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: If a person applies for a social assistance payment and they are married, in a civil partnership or cohabitating, the means of their spouse, civil partner or cohabitant are also taken into account in the means test. Entitlement to a social insurance payment is based on a person's social insurance record and the personal rate of payment is not subject to a means test. However, if they wish...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Private Partnerships (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: There are no planned Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects or any ongoing PPP contracts in the Department or the bodies under the aegis of the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Department recognises the need for a transition period during which people can grieve and plan for a life following the death of a family member. Within the social welfare system, there are a number of supports for those in receipt of a pension who suffer a bereavement. In particular, there is an arrangement known as the six-weeks payment after death which allows for certain payments to...