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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (9 Nov 2011)
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. In addition to income support, supports available include the back to education programmes, back to work schemes and part time work. In addition, a fully integrated nationwide range of...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: The staffing needs of my Department are regularly reviewed, having regard to workloads, management priorities and the competing demands arising, to ensure that the best use is made of all available resources. The Department will continue to source available staff to fill critical vacancies by way of redeployment, or transfer from within the Department and other Government Departments, taking...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: In the case in question, an application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received on 15 March 2011. 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 the 17 May 2011 refusing the allowance. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal against this decision. She was...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the illness benefit claim of the person concerned was disallowed following an examination by a Medical Assessor who expressed the opinion that he was medically unsuitable for the benefit. An appeal was registered on 22 October 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 (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received from the person concerned on the 24th January 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 the 10th February 2011 refusing the allowance. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal against the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: The legislative basis which provides for the introduction of the Partial Capacity Benefit scheme is contained in the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2010. Full details of the scheme will be set out when the scheme is being formally launched before the end of this year The Partial Capacity Benefit scheme will be open to people who are in receipt of Invalidity Pension (IP) or...
- Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government is the lead Department for severe weather emergencies and the Office of Public Works has responsibility for capital flood relief activities. However, the Department of Social Protection has an important role to play in assisting households in the immediate aftermath of emergency events such as the recent floods. The...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: An on-line application for a redundancy rebate has been received from this employer. All customers using my Department's on-line redundancy system are also required to submit a hard copy of the form which should be signed and dated by both the employer and the employee concerned. The hard copy forms have not yet been received. The application cannot be processed until the latter have been...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: I confirm that an application for carer's allowance has been received from the person concerned. On completion of the necessary investigations relating to all aspect of his claim a decision will be made and the person in question will be notified directly of the outcome. The average time taken to process a claim to completion, including assessment of the claimant's means and the entitlement...
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: My Department continues to monitor and review the operation of the JobBridge scheme, including its eligibility criteria, on an ongoing basis. To date, some amendments to the eligibility criteria have taken place. In August of this year, for example, sole traders became eligible to participate in the JobBridge scheme for which they had not been eligible on its launch.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: The person concerned is currently in receipt of the maximum rate of State pension (contributory) and also receives an increase for a qualified adult in respect of his wife. In addition to this he is in receipt of a fuel allowance and the full range of household benefits entitlement (free electricity/telephone allowances, free TV licence and a free travel pass). A letter has issued to the...
- Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: The Government in recognising the devastation suffered by many families arising from the recent floods has agreed to set up a Humanitarian Assistance Scheme with an allocation of up to â¬10 million. The scheme will provide means-tested financial support to people who have suffered damage to their homes as a result of the recent flooding. The main details of the Humanitarian Assistance Fund...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it , transferred formally to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. Since 2005 rent supplement expenditure has increased from â¬369million to â¬516million in 2010. The number of persons claiming the allowance increased from almost...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: One of the conditions for receipt of a Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance payment is that the applicant must be in receipt of a qualified child allowance in respect of the child in question. Departmental records show that no such increase is payable to the person in question. My Department have issued the person with a review form, which should be completed and returned to the...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (8 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: To qualify for a State pension (contributory), three conditions must be satisfied: (i) Date of entry into insurance (at full or modified rate) before age 56; (ii) A certain number of full-rate contributions must be paid. From 6 April 2012, the minimum number of paid contributions required to pass the first contribution test for a State pension (contributory) will increase from 260 to 520....
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: An overpayment arose in this case as the income of the person concerned increased when she started a FÃS course in June 2010. Her participation on the FÃS course did not come to notice until April 2011.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: Supplementary welfare allowance payments are continuing to issue to the person concerned.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS) and the community welfare officers providing it transferred formally to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. The position remains as advised in question 99 which I answered for the Deputy on 28th September. That is, the information that was requested previously from the client...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (8 Nov 2011)
Joan Burton: Under the Redundancy Payments Scheme all eligible employees are entitled to a statutory redundancy lump sum payment on being made redundant. In this case no claim appears to have been submitted for the individual concerned.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (8 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 August 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Social Welfare Services on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred in due course to an Appeals...