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Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The JobBridge scheme contains a number of measures to minimise displacement including the following: · all Host Organisations must declare in their application that they are not displacing an employee and that they have no vacancy in the specific area; · the JobBridge team check all applications against recent vacancies advertised on the FAS Jobs Ireland website; · if the JobBridge team...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: As of 4 October 2011, just over 2,800 organisations have advertised internship opportunities under the JobBridge scheme. Since the start of the JobBridge scheme just over 5,600 internship opportunities have been available. In relation to the number of participants on the JobBridge scheme, the latest figures show that a total of 1,769 individuals have commenced an internship under the scheme.

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) assists people who are over-indebted and need help and advice in coping with debt problems. The role of money advisors is to help clients to assess their financial situation, make a budget plan and deal with creditors. There are 52 independent MABS companies operating the local MABS services from 65 locations throughout the country, with national...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Currently 1,000 community employment placements are ring fenced for persons undergoing rehabilitation from drug addiction. These are referred to as Rehabilitation CE Scheme Places. Specific criteria for the selection of placements and participants, agreed with the sector representatives, are in place. Further work is underway under the aegis of the National Drug Rehabilitation...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Entitlement to carer's allowance is based on satisfying medical, means and residency conditions. In determining entitlement to the allowance there are, in certain cases, unavoidable time lags involved in making the necessary investigations and enquiries to enable accurate decisions to be made. Delays can also arise if people applying for the allowance are not in a position to supply all the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 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. The Department's records show that no application for rent supplement has been received from the person in question. The person should now submit an application for rent...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 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. The person concerned is in receipt of a rent supplement of €213.50 per month which is the full amount payable based on her household circumstances.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the above named person. On completion of the necessary investigations on all aspects of the claim a decision will be made and the person concerned 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...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the above named person. On completion of the necessary investigations on all aspects of the claim a decision will be made and the person concerned 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...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the above named person. On completion of the necessary investigations on all aspects of the claim a decision will be made and the person concerned 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...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance (BSCFA) scheme operates from the beginning of June until the end of September each year. A person may qualify for a BSCFA payment if he or she is in receipt of a social welfare or health service executive payment, is participating in an approved employment scheme or attending a recognised education or training course, and has household...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: In order to satisfy the medical conditions for receipt of disability allowance a person must be suffering from an injury, disease, congenital deformity or physical or mental illness or defect which has continued or may reasonably be expected to continue for a period of at least a year and as a result of the condition the person is substantially restricted in undertaking work which would...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: As part of a review of the continued entitlement to disability allowance of the person concerned, her medical suitability was assessed by one of the Department's medical assessors who was of the opinion that she was no longer medically suitable for disability allowance. A deciding officer accepted this opinion and the person's claim was disallowed. A letter issued to the person on 26 May...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: An application for the State pension non-contributory (SPNC) from the person concerned was received on the 11th July 2011. The file has been forwarded to the local social welfare inspector (SWI) for investigation of the customer's entitlement to SPNC. He will be contacted shortly by the SWI to be interviewed regarding his application. When the SWI has completed her report, the file will be...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The person concerned is currently in receipt of Jobseeker's Allowance at a weekly rate of €250.40. Family Income Support is a weekly payment for payments for families at work on low pay. It is not subject to income tax and does not affect medical card eligibility. If the person concerned commences employment for 30 hours per week at a weekly rate of €250.00, he may be entitled to claim...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Family income supplement has been awarded to the person in question with effect from 21 April 2011. First payment, including arrears due, has recently been lodged to the person's nominated bank account. Payment will continue for 52 weeks as long as qualifying conditions are met.

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The significant increase in the Live Register over the past number of years has placed additional pressures on my Department's local offices in terms of providing a satisfactory service to the public. The Department accepts that as a consequence, some of its buildings require refurbishment, extensions or, in some cases, replacement. The Department relies on the Office of Public Works (OPW)...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The farm assist scheme is a means-tested payment broadly similar to the jobseeker's allowance scheme. It features a more generous means test, which takes account of the specific nature of farming and, unlike jobseeker's allowance, farmers claiming this payment do not need to be available for work outside of the farm in order to qualify. In recent years changes have been made to farm assist...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The appropriate level of overall expenditure by my Department in the years ahead will be considered in the context of Budget 2012 and subsequent Budgets. Sustainable public finances are a prerequisite for maintaining an adequate system of social protection as well as achieving future economic stability and growth. To this end, the State must pursue a determined deficit reduction strategy....

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The JobBridge scheme contains a number of measures to minimise displacement including the following: all Host Organisations must declare in their application that they are not displacing an employee and that they have no vacancy in the specific area; the JobBridge team check all applications against recent vacancies advertised on the FÁS Jobs Ireland website; if the JobBridge team...