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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered on the 27th November 2023....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 861 and 937 together. The tables below set out expenditure related to people in receipt of Social Protection schemes under the Temporary Protection Directive (Ukraine), by month, in 2022 and 2023 respectively for the requested schemes. Table 1: Breakdown of expenditure on Social Protection schemes relating to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection in 2022 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Recovery of Benefits and Assistance (RBA) Scheme recovers the value of certain illness-related social welfare payments, which includes Illness Benefit, from compensation awards made to a person as a consequence of personal injury claim. The benefits are recovered from the compensator, not from the injured person. These benefits are recovered by the Department of Social Protection to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: State pension non-contributory is a means-tested payment for people aged 66 and over, legally and habitually residing in the State, who do not qualify for a state pension contributory, or who only qualify for a reduced rate contributory pension based on their social insurance record. A state pension non-contributory application form was received from the person concerned on 14 December...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Invalidity Pension (IP) is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work because of illness or incapacity and for no other reason and who satisfy the pay related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions. My Department received an application for IP from the person concerned on 8 September 2023. Based on the information supplied, it was refused on the grounds that the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The information requested by the Deputy is included in the following tabular statement. This data relates to the end of December 2023. Payment type Blind Pension Disability Allowance Domiciliary Care Allowance Disablement Pension Invalidity Pension Injury Benefit Cheque 0 2 8 1,111 32...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 866, 868 and 872 together. The extension of Child Benefit to 18-year-olds in full-time education was one of my key priorities as part of Budget 2024. With many children now starting primary school at age 5, together with the increase in pupils doing transition year, there has been an increase in the number of 18-year-olds still in secondary education. I...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Household Benefits Package comprises the electricity or gas allowance, and the free television licence. The Department of Social Protection will spend approximately €294 million this year on Household Benefits Package for over 520,000 customers. People over the age of 70 receive the Household Benefits Package, with one package provided per household. The package is also...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) from late September to April, at an estimated cost of €382 million in 2024. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. Only one allowance is paid per household. The Fuel Allowance is paid to social welfare recipients such as pensioners,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Customers in receipt of the Jobseeker's Transitional Payment can engage in education, training or employment without it affecting their payment, as long as they continue to satisfy the means test, subject to an earnings disregard. Recipients of the payment are supported by the Department to enter or return to employment and/or to undertake educational and training programmes, through the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a suite of income supports to those who cannot work due to illness or disability. Eligibility for these payments is generally not dependent on the type of the illness or disability but on the extent to which a particular illness or disability impairs or restricts a person’s capacity to work. My Department also provides a range of employment supports for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Household Benefits Package comprises the electricity or gas allowance, and the free television licence. The Department of Social Protection will spend approximately €294 million this year on the Household Benefits Package for over 520,000 customers. People over the age of 70 receive the Household Benefits Package, with one package provided per household. The package is also...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Invalidity Pension (IP) is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work because of illness or incapacity and for no other reason and who satisfy the contribution conditions. As IP is a contribution-based payment, customers will not lose their entitlement to the basic IP rate due to a change in circumstances where they now reside with a spouse, civil partner or cohabitant....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a monthly payment to the parents or guardians of children under 16 years of age. Child Benefit can also be claimed for children aged 16 and 17 if they are in full-time education or full-time training or have a disability and cannot support themselves. The following table outlines expenditure for Child Benefit in respect of customers who are living in Ireland under the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a monthly payment to the parents or guardians of children under 16 years of age. Child Benefit can also be claimed for children aged 16 and 17 if they are in full-time education or full-time training or have a disability and cannot support themselves. Child Benefit was paid to 652,000 families in respect of 1.2 million children at a cost of €2.4 billion in 2023. By...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a monthly payment to the parents or guardians of children under 16 years of age. Child Benefit can also be claimed for children aged 16 and 17 if they are in full-time education or full-time training or have a disability and cannot support themselves. The table below outlines Child Benefit payable to children residing outside the state from 2018 to 2023, the country of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Most welfare benefits require the recipient to be habitually resident in Ireland. Certain welfare benefits, such as State Pension Contributory allow the recipient, and any adult dependents such as a spouse to live outside the State. The data requested by the Deputy for the calendar year 2023 is shown in the attached tabular statement. Note that only a person's current country of residence...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The EmployAbility service provides support to people with disabilities who are job-ready to secure and maintain paid employment in the open labour market leading to independence and career progression. This support includes accessing job vacancies, aid with applications and support in accessing work experience placements and matching with employers. Under the contract entered into with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The current target processing time for Jobseeker's Allowance is 90% of claims in 6 weeks, for Jobseeker's Benefit, the target processing time is and 90% of claims in 3 weeks. These targets were achieved in both schemes in each month in 2023, with the exception of August 2023, where Jobseeker's Benefit where the processing time was recorded at 85% in 3 weeks. The processing times for...