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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, formally transferred to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. Due to a change in circumstances for the person concerned, in that her job seekers benefit payment had finished, the person's rent supplement entitlement has been...
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The Local Employment Service provides a range of services to unemployed people focusing on the provision of practical support, advice, guidance and information relating to employment, training and return to work and welfare rights options. The service is community-based and operated by Local Development Companies in 25 designated disadvantaged areas with funding provided by FÃS. The...
- Written Answers — Croke Park Agreement: Croke Park Agreement (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: An action plan was prepared by my Department in accordance with the requirements of the Public Service (Croke Park) Agreement 2010 â 2014. Action Plans were also prepared by the agencies under the aegis of my Department, namely the Citizens Information Board and the Pensions Board. My Department's Action Plan and those of the agencies under the aegis of my Department were prepared having...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, formally transferred to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. Under the supplementary allowance scheme (SWA) an exceptional needs payment (ENP) may be made to help meet an essential, once-off cost which the applicant is unable to...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The person concerned has applied for the back to education allowance (BTEA) in respect of a BTEC Higher National Diploma which is classified as a third level course in accordance with BTEA guidelines. As the person concerned has not been in receipt of a qualifying payment for 234 days he does not satisfy the conditions for receipt of BTEA (third level option).
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (18 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 191â2 hours duration per week with a...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 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 mortgage interest supplement claim of the person concerned was suspended while his entitlement was being reviewed. The review has since been completed and arrears have...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, formally transferred to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. Under the supplementary allowance scheme (SWA) an exceptional needs payment (ENP) may be made to help meet an essential, once-off cost which the applicant is unable to...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The savings to the Exchequer arising from the capping at â¬35,000 per annum of those pension payments which are funded by my Department and made to former employees of the Citizen's Information Board would be â¬20,044 in 2011. The pensions of staff who retire from the two other agencies of my Department (the Pensions Board and the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman) are not funded through...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The person concerned should contact Bishop Square Local Office regarding his Jobseeker's application. However, individuals who commence a JobBridge internship can expect to receive their additional top-up payment of â¬50 per week approximately 3 weeks after commencing the internship.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The person concerned was refused carer's allowance on grounds that he has not established that he is providing full-time care and attention as laid down in the carer's allowance guidelines. The Department is satisfied that the care recipient has a requirement for full-time care. He was notified of this decision, the reason for it and of his right of review or appeal within 21days to the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: Further to my response to Parliamentary Question Ref. No. 127 on 05 October 2011, I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that there is no update to the information given previously. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions on social welfare...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (18 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 16th June 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 06...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 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 requested to provide further information to process his application for a mortgage interest supplement. When this information is received a...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The person concerned was refused carer's allowance on grounds that the Department's medical assessor expressed the opinion that the care recipient is not so disabled as to require full-time care and attention as prescribed in regulations. She was notified of this decision, the reason for it and of her right of review or appeal. Additional medical evidence has been received and will be...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The person concerned has been awarded carer's allowance. Arrears of allowance due from the date of his application for carer's allowance, less any other payment made to him for the intervening period, will issue shortly.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, formally transferred to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. Apart from a number of excluded categories, anyone in the State who satisfies a habitual residency condition and a means test, who has registered for employment, unless...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: Social protection statistics are reported at EU level based on the ESSPROS methodology. That has much wider coverage than Department of Social Protection (DSP) expenditure, as it includes health expenditure, public service pensions and other significant expenditures. On that basis, Irish social protection expenditure was 18.3% of GDP In 2006, compared to an EU 27 average of 26.7%. By 2008,...
- Written Answers — School Meals Programme: School Meals Programme (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The School Meals Programme gives funding towards the provision of food services for disadvantaged children through two schemes. The first is the statutory Urban School Meals Scheme, operated by local authorities and part-financed by this Department. The second is the School Meals Local Projects Scheme through which funding is provided directly to participating schools and local and...
- Written Answers — Community Welfare Service: Community Welfare Service (18 Oct 2011)
Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, formally transferred to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the Department of Social Protection. The purpose of Circulars issued by my Department is to provide information, guidance, clarification and interpretations to staff on all...