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

Joan Burton: My Department operates a wide range of supports and initiatives to support the unemployed and other recipients of social welfare payments. Schemes and programmes are monitored on an ongoing basis to ensure they remain fit for purpose. Initial work on the review has commenced. It will take a number of months to complete. The precise format of the review is currently being determined....

Employment Support Services (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: We are keeping the scheme under review. It has been extremely successful. We are limited overall to 5,000 places over a two year period but we will continue to examine the eligibility criteria. The scheme is a labour activation measure. We have agreed with the IMF that people who have been on the live register should be given encouragement options to go back to work or to take part in...

Ministerial Staff (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Deputy Adams was not there.

Ministerial Staff (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Deputy Adams should examine his party's record.

Flood Relief (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Since around 2004 the Department of Social Protection has been responsible for humanitarian assistance. The level of humanitarian assistance is a matter for the Government as a whole but is administered in general by the Department through community welfare officers. The critical issue that Members can assist with is information on people who are in terrible distress. I am aware of that....

Employment Support Services (25 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I am delighted to have an opportunity to reply to the matter raised by Deputy Mitchell. The JobBridge scheme is the Government's national internship scheme. It will provide up to 5,000 places for those seeking employment, with an internship opportunity of six to nine months in an organisation in the private, public or community and voluntary sectors. During this time participants will...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The jobseeker's schemes provide income support for people who are seeking their first job or have lost work and are seeking alternative employment. A fundamental qualifying condition for both the jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance is that a person must be available for and genuinely seeking full-time work. To satisfy this condition, it is necessary for the person to demonstrate...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (20 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 (20 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 12 October 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Department on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer for consideration....

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The person concerned was one of the 127,000 households who received an automated back to school clothing and footwear allowance payment in 2011. A cheque payment issued to her on the 24th June 2011.

Written Answers — Money Advice and Budgeting Service: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I refer the Deputy again to my response to question number 240 on the 27th September 2011 and my further response to question number 317 of the 4th October 2011 in this regard. As advised, a proposal to establish a joint Citizens Information Centre (CIC) and Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) office in Killarney is currently being considered by the Citizens Information Board, who has...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The current operational guidelines for the household benefits scheme specify that: - On entry to a nursing home/hospital a client loses entitlement to household benefits from the end of the billing period in which he/she entered the nursing home/hospital. If they return home and reapply for the schemes within six months the schemes can be backdated to the date that the schemes were...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (20 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 16 June 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Department on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers were received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 6 October 2011 and the appeal has...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 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 made an application for an exceptional needs payment on 3rd October 2011. Additional information has been requested in respect of the application and a...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 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 position remains as advised in the question which I answered for the Deputy on 18 October 2011.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 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 was refused a basic supplementary welfare allowance payment as the Department's representative who administers the supplementary welfare allowance...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: No statutory bodies, state boards or quangos have been established or abolished by the Department of Social Protection since February 2011. Three statutory bodies operate under the aegis of the Department. They are the Social Welfare Tribunal, the Citizens Information Board and the Pensions Board. In addition, the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman comes under the remit of the Department.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The current range of payment options offered by my Department offers choice to most scheme customers in how they are receive their welfare entitlement. The options include payment at a local post office or through a bank, building society or certain credit unions or payment by cheque. The post office is the preferred choice of the majority of customers for the receipt of their social welfare...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Oct 2011)

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 a summary decision. The person concerned has been notified of the Appeals Officer's decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (20 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 3 October 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Department on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer for consideration....