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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Partial Capacity Benefit allows a person who has been in receipt of Illness Benefit for six months and who may not have full capacity for work, to return to employment and continue to receive a partial or full payment from the Department. The rate of payment is based on the assessment of the person's restriction on capacity for work; either moderate, severe or profound and the person retains...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Consultancy Contracts Data (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The table below contains my Department's expenditure to date on external consultancies and bodies who delivered training on all aspects of GDPR. In addition my Department undertakes in house training and awareness initiatives on GDPR on an ongoing basis including a data protection e-learning training module which is available to all staff. External consultancies Cost ALLONE Corporate...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Child Benefit is a monthly payment made to families with children in respect of all qualified children up to the age of 16 years. The payment continues to be paid in respect of children up to their 18th birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. Child Benefit is currently paid, as of end-July 2019 to almost 630,000 families in respect of nearly 1.2 million children,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. In order to qualify for WFP, an applicant must have a qualified child and be engaged in full-time paid employment as an employee for not less than 38 hours per fortnight. To qualify for Working Family Payment a person must be in employment working a minimum...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Jobseeker's Benefit (JB) and Jobseeker's Allowance (JA) are the two main income supports available from my Department to people who have lost work and are unable to find alternative full time employment. JB is a social insurance based scheme and applicants must have sufficient insurance contributions to qualify. If a person is not entitled to JB they may be able to claim the means tested JA...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Customer Charters (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) is committed to delivering an excellent Customer Service experience. My Department aims to provide the best possible service at all times, ensuring all customers are served in a fair, courteous and timely manner, be informed of their rights and entitlements, be provided with full and clear information and have their privacy...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: A policy to introduce the Total Contributions Approach (TCA) to pensions calculation was adopted by Government in the National Pensions Framework in 2010, as was the decision to base the entitlements of all new pensioners on this approach from late 2020. In January 2018, I announced the Government Decision to introduce a new interim Total Contributions Approach (TCA) to the calculation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, including that deduced at the oral hearing, has decided to allow the appeal of the person concerned. The person concerned has been notified of the Appeals Officer's decision on 19 July 2019. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work weekly payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. An application for WFP was received from the person concerned on 08 August 2019. The person concerned has been awarded WFP with effect from 08 August 2019 to 05 August 2020. The first weekly payment and all arrears owing will issue to their selected...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 21 August 2019. The application is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned had their Rent Supplement claim reviewed in April 2019. The amount payable did not change as there was no change in circumstances. My Department has not been made aware of any change in the person's circumstances since this review. If there has been a change in circumstances, such as an increase in rent, the person concerned should contact my Department and seek a new...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is in receipt of a weekly basic supplementary welfare allowance payment (BASI). One of the qualifying conditions for this payment is that a person must satisfy a means test and other social welfare payments are assessable as means. The spouse of the person concerned is currently in receipt of a half-rate carer's allowance payment. An overpayment occurred as the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 23 July 2019. The application is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who has decided to convene an oral hearing in this case. The arrangements for this oral hearing will be finalised by the end of this week and the appellant will be informed when arrangements for the oral hearing have been made. The Social Welfare Appeals Office...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Blind Person's Pension Data (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The number of persons in receipt of Blind Pension at end of 2018 was 1,174. The breakdown of gender and county are detailed below: County Male Female Total Carlow 15 8 23 Cavan 9 3 12 Clare 10 4 14 Cork 49 44 93 Donegal 30 33 63 Dublin 157 158 315 Galway 44 24 68 Kerry 24 22 46 Kildare 21 10 31 Kilkenny 13 14 27 Laois 12 11 23 Leitrim 3 3 6 Limerick 25 24 49 Longford 7 4...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Blind Welfare Allowance (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The blind welfare allowance is a means-tested payment from the Health Service Executive to people who are blind or visually impaired. The allowance is paid to eligible people from 18 years of age. Blind welfare allowance is considered as means when applying for disability allowance and means are calculated in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 3 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Consultations (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The work undertaken by the data specialist related to the provision of technical assistance in relation to data analysis and statistical modelling work that is ongoing in the Department. The data specialist was an expert in SAS, the statistical software package used by the Department. I can confirm the data specialist was not in engaged in respect of the Public Services Card and/or reports...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Recruitment (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: My Department is required to operate within a staff ceiling figure and a commensurate administrative staffing budget. Any additions above and beyond this require the approval of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER). The staffing needs for all areas within my Department are continuously reviewed, taking account of workloads, management priorities and the ongoing need to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Currently, the average time to award an Illness benefit claim is one week. Applicants for Illness Benefit who are due a payment, and whose medical certificates and claims are in order, receive their payment promptly. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Internships (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: My Department has not issued or granted unpaid internships over the past five years. My Department runs two annual internship programmes which are advertised in participating colleges. Up to nine interns are assigned to the Information Systems Internship Programme and up to four are assigned to the Data Science/Statistics Internship Programme. The programmes run for six and nine months...