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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Partial Capacity Benefit allows a person who has been in receipt of Illness Benefit for six months or Invalidity Pension 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 personal rate of Partial Capacity Benefit payment is based on the assessment of a person's restriction...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Data (9 Jul 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. Means are any income belonging to the carer and their spouse, civil partner, or cohabitant, property, (except their own...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, decided to disallow the appeal of the person concerned by way of a summary decision on 28 March 2019.  Under Social Welfare legislation, the decision of an Appeals Officer is final and conclusive and may only be reviewed by an Appeals Officer in the light of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred on 29th May 2019 to an Appeals Officer  who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing.  The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Scope Section of my Department undertakes investigations on foot of requests from a variety of sources, for example employees, employers or Social Welfare Inspectors.  These investigations cover a variety of situations, for example, modified classes of PRSI for civil and public servants, family employments or insurability of Directors. As a number of applications have been made to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work payment which provides additional financial support to employees on low earnings with children.  In order to qualify for WFP a person must have at least 1 qualified child.  In calculating entitlement to WFP no allowances can be made for personal, family, or household expenditure. The governing social welfare legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware JobPath is a case management service that provides employment counselling and advice to long-term unemployed jobseekers with a view to improving their prospects of securing sustained employment.  It complements the case management services provided directly by the Department's own staff via Intreo and via other contracted providers such as the Local...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am advised that the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. 10) (Assessment of Means) Regulations 2019 and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 5) (Assessment of Means) Regulations 2019 are due to cease to have effect on 31 December 2019. These Regulations provide that, for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a PRSI based payment, made to a person 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. It is payable for a maximum of 104 weeks for each person being cared for. This may be claimed as a single continuous period or in any number of separate periods up to a total of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Defined Benefit (DB) schemes are voluntary tri-partite arrangements between employers, employees (or their representatives) and trustees.  Responsibility rests with all the parties for ensuring that the scheme is properly managed and funded to meet the promised level of benefits. Almost all Irish defined benefit pension schemes have a rule that allows the employer to cease contributions,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The increase for a qualified adult, payable with the state pension (contributory), is a means-tested payment, based on the means of the qualified adult, solely or jointly held.  An increase has been awarded to the person concerned with effect from 7 March 2019, at the maximum weekly rate for a qualified adult under 66 with nil assessable means.  ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The introduction of a Total Contributions Approach (TCA) to establishing the level of entitlement for all new state pension contributory claims was signalled by the then Government in the National Pensions Framework in 2010.  At that time it set a target date of 2020 for the implementation of TCA.  More recently, the Roadmap for Pensions Reform 2018-2023 targeted implementation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme.  These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 80 private transport operators.  There are currently approx....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Support Services (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: My Department provides a range of grants and supports to assist both jobseekers with disabilities and employers to take appropriate measures to enable either a potential employee or existing employee with disabilities to obtain or retain employment.  These include the: - Disability Awareness Support Scheme (DASS) - Reasonable Accommodation Fund (RAF), which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Christmas Bonus payment is made to long-term social welfare recipients, such as pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, lone parents and long-term unemployed people who rely wholly or mainly on their social welfare payments for financial support. As is the case every year, the payment of a Christmas Bonus is a discretionary decision made by Government in the context of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Legislation (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011 provided that State pension age will increase to age 67 in 2021 and age 68 in 2028.  The purpose of these changes is to make the pension system more sustainable in the context of increasing life expectancy.  This has significant implications for future cost of State pension provision which is increasing by approximately €1 billion...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: In 2019, it is estimated that this Department will spend over €8 billion on pension payments. The cost includes payments to over 650,000 pensioners and qualified adults who are aged 66 and over as well as pensions paid to those who are under 66 years of age (such as widows and qualified adults under the age of 66). According to the CSO’s Population and Labour Force...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed, including those working part-time and those at risk of becoming long-term unemployed, to secure and sustain full-time paid employment.  All jobseekers over one year on the Live Register are eligible for selection for the JobPath service and clients are chosen by means of a random selection...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The social protection system includes a variety of social assistance payments with different rules in relation to means testing, reflecting the different contingencies under which payments are made. The blind pension is a means-tested payment paid to blind and visually impaired people. It is unique in the social protection system as it is a payment provided to people with a specific...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (9 Jul 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 increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. An application for CA was received...