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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 Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I have no current plans to appoint additional social welfare inspectors to the Department. However, I recently launched a new Fraud Initiative aimed at ensuring an integrated approach to the prevention, deterrence and detection of social welfare abuse across the social welfare system. I intend to implement this initiative through the refocusing of current inspector resources towards the...

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

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that both appeals by the person concerned were registered in that office on 8 February 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers were received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 21...

Written Answers — Community Employment: Community Employment (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I have already indicated to this House that I wish to consider improvements to the operation of a number of programmes and initiatives funded by the Department of Social Protection to support people who are unemployed to get back into work, further training and/or education. Significant institutional changes have been made with the transfer of responsibilities for the community and...

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 an exceptional needs payment towards fuel costs as the Department's representative who administers supplementary welfare allowance was not...

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

Joan Burton: The purpose of rent supplement is to provide short-term support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. Rent supplement is subject to a limit on the amount of rent that an applicant may incur. Rent limits are set at levels that enable...

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

Joan Burton: The person concerned was awarded Child Benefit under domestic legislation from 1 July 2000. In May 2011, the Department was advised that her spouse is employed in Germany, which gave rise to a review of her claim under EU Regulations. Under EU Regulations, Family Benefits are paid by the country of employment, even when the family reside in another EU Member State. In this case, as her...

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 an exceptional needs payment towards a gas bill in June 2011 as the Department's representative was not satisfied that an exceptional need...

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 rent supplement but his rent was in excess of the maximum rent limit for his family size. The person concerned was advised to...

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 entitlement of the person concerned to rent supplement is currently under review as the person concerned has been refused back-to-education allowance and is in...

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 he did not satisfy the habitual residence condition.

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 question number 97 which I answered for the Deputy on 6 October 2011. That is, the designated Appeals Officer upheld the decision not to...

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 in receipt of rent supplement in respect of an address in Waterford but this claim is currently suspended. If the person concerned wishes to...

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

Joan Burton: The person concerned made an application for jobseeker's allowance on 8 August 2011. One of the qualifying conditions for receipt of this payment is that a person satisfies the Habitual Residence Condition. On 22 September 2011 the person concerned was requested to provide certain documentation in support of his application. A decision will be made on receipt of the requested documentation.

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. I have been advised that there are no current claims for supplementary welfare allowance in respect of the family concerned. The persons concerned should contact the...

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 has appealed the decision to refuse rent supplement to the Social Welfare Appeals Office but no decision has been made on her appeal. The Social...

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 26th September 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers were received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 5th...

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: There has been a dramatic rise in the level of mortgage arrears in the past two years and the trend continues. Some 45,000 households are more than 90 days behind with their mortgage payments and another 56,000 households have already been forced to restructure their loans due to difficulties in making repayments. This is the legacy of the previous Fianna Fáil-led Government, which failed...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Claims under the Insolvency Payments Scheme may be processed if the company is insolvent within the definition of the Protection of Employees (Employers' Insolvency) Act 1984 and a "relevant officer" – normally, a receiver or liquidator – has been appointed and certifies the claims. It is usually the case that the liquidator collates all employee claims and submits them on behalf of the...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (19 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: As part of the reorganisation of functions and services in support of people who are unemployed, the community and employment support services of FÁS are being transferred to the Department of Social Protection. The legislative changes to give effect to these changes have been put in place and FÁS staff will complete the transfer to my Department in January 2012. As a consequence of these...