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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (26 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: An application was received in Scope Section on 15 April 2019 seeking a decision with regard to the employed/self-employed status of the individual named by the Deputy. A Scope investigation was opened on 17 April 2019 and was referred to a Social Welfare Inspector on 29 April 2019 to interview the parties concerned. These investigations are currently underway. Once the investigation is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Eligibility (26 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work support which provides an income top-up for employees on low earnings. The WFP is designed to prevent in-work poverty for low paid workers with child dependants, and to offer a financial incentive to take-up employment. There are currently almost 53,000 families with 119,000 children in receipt of the WFP. The estimated spend on the WFP in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Data (26 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: The table below outlines the number of recipients of the one parent family payment (OFP) each year since 2016 to date, the numbers of OFPs who transferred onto JST, and the overall number of JSTs at each date: Date Dec-16 Dec-17 Dec-18 May-19 OFP 40,317 39,310 39,580 39,417 OFP Transferred to JST 1,811 1,550 1,528 899 Overall JST 14,580 14,618 14,796 14,947 The Jobseeker’s...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (26 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in-work payment which provides additional financial support to employees on low earnings with children. WFP is designed to prevent in-work poverty for low paid workers with child dependents and to offer a financial incentive to take up employment. The number of recipients of WFP in 2018 and to date in 2019 is as follows: Year WFP Recipients 2018...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (26 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: Pre-1995 public sector employees pay PRSI contributions at modified rates of contribution, Classes B, C or D. Class B covers permanent and pensionable civil servants recruited prior to 6 April 1995, registered doctors and dentists employed in the civil service and Gardaí recruited prior to 1995. Class C is paid by commissioned army officers and members of the army nursing service,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: Approximately 20,000 appeals come into the Department every year. This amounts to less than 2% of the entire annual claims load. The number of appeals is tiny compared to the overall number of applications the Department receives. The reason a high number are successful is further information not given in the first instance, which could have meant an appeal would have been unnecessary, is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Registration Service (25 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: To become a registered solemniser a person must have an application made on their behalf, by an authorised body, to have that person added to the Register of Solemnisers. Section 45 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 defines the bodies that are permitted to apply to have persons added to the Register of Solemnisers. This section was amended by section 2 of the Civil Registration (Amendment)...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (25 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a PRSI based payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. An application for CARB was received from the person concerned on 9 May 2019. The application is currently being processed and once completed, the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (25 Jun 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 of the TCA...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (25 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS), under the aegis of the Citizens Information Board, provides assistance to people, in particular those on low incomes or living on social welfare payments, who are over-indebted and need help and advice with debt problems. As part of its free services, MABS provides help and advice to those in mortgage arrears. In February 2017, the CIB Board...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (25 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: The state pension (contributory) entitlement of the person concerned was calculated based on the yearly average of their social insurance contributions divided over the number of years of their working life. In that decision, the person benefitted from the maximum allowable homemaking disregard (of 20 years) and currently qualifies for €211.40 weekly (or 85% of maximum rate pension)....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (25 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: Applications for CA were received from the person concerned on 15 March 2019, in respect of both his parents. An increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. The applications were awarded to the person concerned on 19 June 2019 with effect from 21 March 2019. The first payment will issue to his nominated post office on 4 July 2019. Arrears of allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (25 Jun 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 16 May 2019. The application is currently being processed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Freedom of Information Data (25 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: The number of freedom of information requests received in the Department in 2018 was 2,510. The numbers that were granted, part-granted, refused, transferred to an appropriate body, withdrawn or handled outside freedom of information, are set out in the tabular statement below. Freedom of Information (FOI) Requests Received by DEASP in 2018 Granted 684 Part-Granted 1,275 Refused 369...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment (25 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. Approximately 53,000 families benefit from this weekly payment. WFP for the person concerned was due for renewal on 21 February 2019 and an application to renew WFP was received on 24 January 2019. The person concerned has 2 children and the income limit for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (25 Jun 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 of the TCA...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (25 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Labour Force Survey is the official measure of unemployment in the State. I am advised by the Central Statistics Office that data from the Labour Force Survey is not available at a county level, however regional figures that provide an average for 2018 of the number of persons unemployed for one year and over, three years and over and five years and over are set out below. Meanwhile, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (25 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: It is well known that people are living for much longer. As a result of this demographic change, the number of State pension recipients is increasing year on year. This has significant implications for the future costs of State pension provision which, arising from these demographic changes alone, are currently increasing by approximately €1 billion every 4 to 5 years. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (25 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: Since late September 2018, my Department has been examining the social insurance records of approximately 90,000 pensioners, born on or after 1 September 1946, who have a reduced rate State pension contributory entitlement based on post Budget 2012 rate-bands. These payments are being reviewed under a new Total Contributions Approach (TCA) to pension calculation which includes provision for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Homeless Persons Supports (25 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness – Rebuilding Ireland commits to providing access to free public transport for family travel and for school journeys for homeless families in emergency accommodation. My Department is represented on the inter-agency group on homelessness where this issue is under consideration. As the Deputy is aware, the Dublin Region Homeless Executive...