Results 281-300 of 14,213 for carers

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (20 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Niamh Smyth: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the specifics regarding the pension entitlements being worked on for carers by her Department presently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7584/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (20 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...eligibility rules for Fuel Allowance which have resulted in over 35,000 additional households joining the scheme so far.In 2022, I significantly increased the income and capital disregards for Carer's Allowance. This enables more carers with modest incomes to become eligible for the scheme and allows carers and their families to earn more from employment while retaining their payment. As...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Heather Humphreys: ...earnings reach €425 per week;Expanding the list of agri-environmental schemes that qualify for a disregard, which was increased in recent Budgets;In 2022, I significantly increased the income and capital disregards for Carer's Allowance. This enables more carers with modest incomes to become eligible for the scheme and allows carers and their families to earn more from employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Thomas Gould: 111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the supports provided to family carers. [7887/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the widespread shock and dismay amongst parents and carers, caused by the changes to the allocation of the special education teaching hours; and if she will urgently review this decision. [7622/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Benefit is a payment made to insured people who may be required to leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a person(s) in need of full time care. To qualify, the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing full-time care and attention and must show that the care recipient requires full-time care and attention. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Martin Browne: 366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provision will be made to assess a family (details supplied) for carers allowance before their twin children return from hospital where their parents have been accompanying them since the birth of their children at great financial cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7553/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Colm Burke: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the current position where a person is in receipt of carer’s allowance, and they are also working part-time, but due to hospitalisation are not able to work for a period of time; if there are proposals to amend the current system that does not allow them to qualify for illness benefit; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...that claims are handled quickly and efficiently. I am pleased to report that claim processing is up to date, with processing targets met, or exceeded, on average for all the main scheme areas. Carer's Allowance and Carer's Benefit claims are being processed an average of two weeks quicker than they were compared to a year previously and Child Benefit claims are being processed an average...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2024)

Michael Collins: ...that many cannot afford. We have huge waiting lists for physiotherapy, forcing those who again cannot afford it to pay for a private practitioner. The home help situation is at an all-time low, with carers who mind loved ones pleading for more home help hours and more patients awaiting discharge, who cannot go home as they await a homecare package to be put in place due to a lack of home...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerard Craughwell: ...Supreme Court. This is a case of the most systemic importance, according to the Supreme Court. That court allowed the case to leapfrog the Court of Appeal because of the nature of the case. A carer, the mother of an autistic child with Down's syndrome, has had to go to the courts to secure a carer's allowance for her. The Supreme Court case is scheduled to be heard on 11 April. If the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (15 Feb 2024)

David Cullinane: 356. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on home support waiting lists for a carer at the end of January of each year 2019-2024, inclusive; and the breakdown by length of wait, in tabular form. [7266/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (15 Feb 2024)

David Cullinane: 393. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on home support waiting lists for a carer at the end of each month of each year 2019-2023, inclusive; the breakdown by length of wait, in tabular form. [7303/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: I will certainly look into it and see what can be done. Over the past number of years we have tried to improve the financial position of carers. We have increased the carer support grant which is not means tested. We relaxed the means test for the carer's allowance, increased it and extended free GP care to anyone in receipt of the carer's allowance. We will strive to continue on that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...diagnosis is fraught with challenges. The lack of specific knowledge and expertise often leads to significant delays in receiving proper treatment, thereby placing a heavy burden on families and carers. Many rare diseases emerge early in life with a staggering 30% of the children affected passing away before their fifth birthday although many cases are not identified until much later. ...

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Cathal Berry: .... We want Irish tourists staying in Ireland for their holidays rather than going to Spain and Portugal. The second recommendation is about eliminating the welfare traps, as we mentioned. Someone on the working family payment or carer's allowance can only work 18 or 19 hours a week. I was at a company in Clane on Friday that is offering contracts from 18 to 19 hours up to 26 hours a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...of my department is to provide income support where an income need arises because of a particular contingency – be that illness, disability, caring or unemployment. The main income supports to carers provided by my department are Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the Carer’s Support Grant. Spending in 2024 is expected to amount...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Free Travel scheme provides free travel on the main public transport services provided by the State, and some private transport services, for those eligible under the scheme. Currently, applicants who are under 66 must be in receipt of a qualifying payment in order to qualify for the scheme. The qualifying payments for those aged under 66 are Invalidity Pension, Blind Pension (or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. To qualify, the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing full-time care and attention and must show that the care recipient requires full-time care and attention....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024) See 3 other results from this answer

Marian Harkin: 238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the most recent figure on the number of carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, excluding those on a half-rate carer’s allowance; the number of carers who receive a reduced rate of carer’s allowance due to means, categorised by recipients aged under 66 caring for one person, aged under 66 caring for...