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Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Oct 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...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: My Department is not in a position to provide the information that the Deputy is requesting as statistics regarding bankrupt persons are not available.

Written Answers — Courts Service: Courts Service (26 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: My Department does not have the information that the Deputy is requesting. This is a matter for the Department of Justice and Equality.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 26 August 2011 and was referred to an Appeals Officer on 13 October 2011, who will decide whether the case can be decided on a summary basis or whether to list it for oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (26 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: A redundancy lump sum claim in respect of the person concerned was received on 19 July 2011. Redundancy lump sum claims received during April 2011 are currently being processed.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: This application was reviewed by one of the Department's Medical Assessors on 24th October 2011, who found that the child was not medically eligible for Domiciliary Care Allowance. The appeal file is currently being prepared for the Social Welfare Appeals Office and will shortly be forwarded for their consideration.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Oct 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 Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Oct 2011)

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

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (26 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The aim of JobBridge is to assist unemployed individuals to bridge the gap between unemployment and the world of work. JobBridge aims to offer individuals of all skill levels, ranging from those who left school early to highly qualified graduates, a unique opportunity to develop new skills and earn valuable experience. JobBridge can offer a diverse range of jobseekers a chance that will at...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (26 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: JobBridge is an administrative scheme and as such does not come under any specific legislation. Section 16 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011 provides for changes to previous social welfare legislation in relation to the internship scheme.

Written Answers — Community Employment: Community Employment (26 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Community employment helps long-term unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work routine. The focus of CE is on developing technical and personal skills to enable a person to return to the open labour market. Persons engaged are provided with work and training placements of 191⁄2 hours duration per week with a...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (26 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: All applications for internships are made directly by the individual to the host organisation. If an individual is selected by a host organisation, his/her eligibility must be confirmed by my Department before he/she can participate on the scheme. If an individual has previously completed a Work Placement Programme with a host organisation, he/she are not eligible to undertake a JobBridge...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Oct 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 person concerned has been awarded rent supplement from 1st August 2011. The first payment including arrears was made on 24th October.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Under social welfare legislation any payments received by way of pension are not regarded as reckonable emoluments for the purposes of self-employed Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI). Pension annuities provide a secure means of converting savings into pension income to be paid over the span of the individual's life and thereby avoid the danger that pensioners could exhaust their pension...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Oct 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), which includes Mortgage Interest Supplement, are now made to the Social Welfare Appeals Office. Up to now, the...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: As you are aware, pensions are a long-term investment aimed at ensuring that a person has an adequate income in retirement. Government policy supports this aspiration. However, under the provisions of the Pensions Act 1990, if a person with less than two years qualifying service leaves a pension scheme, they are entitled to a refund to the value of their own contributions less tax at the...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: In order for an individual to be eligible to participate in JobBridge, the National Internship Scheme, an individual must: ·be currently in receipt of a live claim (Jobseekers Allowance/Jobseekers Benefit/Signing for Credits) on the Live Register; ·have been in receipt of Jobseekers Benefit, Jobseekers Allowance or signing for Social Insurance Contribution Credits for a total of 78 days or...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: There is no record in the Department of a redundancy claim having been received from the person referenced by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Under the current community employment eligibility guidelines, the person concerned is not eligible to apply for a position on the programme as he is not in receipt of any payment from the Department of Social Protection. He would need to be in receipt of one of the qualifying payments to be eligible or be in receipt of Jobseekers Benefit/Assistance for at least 12 months prior to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Creating jobs and tackling poverty are two of the key challenges that we face. It is essential that our tax and social protection systems play their part in addressing these issues and ensure that work is worthwhile. To this end, I established an Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare last June. The main rationale for setting up the Advisory Group is to harness expert opinion and...