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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (23 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Free Travel Scheme is available to all persons aged over 66 and those under age 66 on certain qualified payments, who are living legally and permanently in the State. The scheme permits those who are eligible to travel for free on most CIE public transport services, Local Link, LUAS and a range of transport services offered by some 75 private operators countrywide. Under the Free Travel...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (23 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: 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. To support the carer in their transition from their caring role when their care recipient passes away, CA continues to be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Nov 2023)

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. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Benefit Payment for 65 Year Olds, provided under the Jobseeker's Benefit schemes, is available to address the position of people who are required to or who choose to retire at age 65 before pension age of 66. A Jobseeker's Benefit (Self-Employed) claim may be disallowed on the grounds that a claimant is engaged in self-employment by virtue of unearned rental income on which Class S PRSI...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (23 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance scheme is a means tested payment to assist pensioners and other long-term social welfare dependent householders with their winter heating costs. The payment is a contribution towards heating costs. The payment is made over the winter season at the weekly rate of €33.00 or, if preferred, by way of two instalment payments. Only one Fuel Allowance is payable per...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (23 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: This week, my Department will issue a once-off Cost of Living Lump Sum payment of €400 to recipients of Disability Allowance, Invalidity Pension and the Blind Pension. Based on current recipient numbers, this means that the payment will be made to 219,461 people. This figure is an estimate and may change as new applications are received and claims are closed. The breakdown by county...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (23 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in-work support which provides an income support for employees on low earnings with children. To qualify for Working Family Payment, the customer must be working a minimum of 38 hours per fortnight in ongoing insurable employment and have at least one qualified child who normally resides with them. Budget 2024 included the provision of a once off...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Fuel Allowance is a means-tested payment to assist householders on long term social welfare payments with their heating needs. The current weekly threshold for the fuel allowance means test for a single person under age 70 years is €465.30. It was decided on 1st November 2023 that the person concerned was not entitled to a fuel allowance as her income, derived from a private...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in-work support which provides an income top-up for employees on low earnings with children. To qualify for Working Family Payment, the customer must have at least 1 qualified child who normally resides with them and the customer must be working a minimum of 38 hours per fortnight in ongoing insurable employment. A review of WFP for the person...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Back to Education Allowance scheme (BTEA) is an educational opportunities scheme for customers in receipt of certain social welfare payments wishing to pursue second or third level courses of education, subject to meeting the qualifying conditions. The objective is to raise educational and skills levels to enable them to better access the labour market. In certain limited...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023)

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 €412 million in 2023. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. Only one allowance is paid per household. It is not possible for my Department to provide an estimate of the cost of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The information requested by the Deputy on the One-Parent Family Payment is shown in the attached tabular statement. "Recipients" is the number of families receiving the payment at the end of a month; "Registered" is the number of new applications registered during a month; and "Rejected" is the number of claims decided during a month that have a rejected outcome. Month ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is payable to a parent / guardian in respect of a child aged under 16 who has a severe disability requiring continual or continuous care and attention substantially in excess of the care and attention normally required by a child of the same age and the level of that disability is such that the child is likely to require this level of care and attention for at...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The National Intreo Contact Centre (NICC) was established within my Department to respond efficiently and effectively to telephone calls made to Intreo Offices nationally. Between June 2021 and May 2022, the NICC replaced all Intreo centre main telephone numbers. It aims to deliver a cohesive cross regional service and to provide the best possible experience for customers through the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My Department is part of the response providing support to Irish citizens arriving from Gaza to Ireland. During 18th and 19th November, my officials from the Community Welfare Service were at Dublin airport to meet and assist, where necessary, persons arriving from Gaza. This participation will remain ongoing for the duration of these arrivals. The role of the Community Welfare Service is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33.00 per week for 28 weeks from September to April. The allowance represents a contribution towards the energy costs of a household. It is not intended to meet those costs in full. One allowance is paid per household. Qualifying payments for Fuel Allowance are those payments that are considered long term payments and an applicant must also satisfy a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: 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. It should be noted that if a person is in receipt of another social welfare payment in their own right (other than a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The CLÁR Programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas that have experienced significant levels of depopulation over a defined period. A review of CLÁR areas nationally was undertaken in 2021 using the 2016 Census of Population data. The review examined the most recent changes in population...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The details requested by the Deputy, regarding the various funding schemes under the aegis of my Department that are open for applications at present; the closing dates for such schemes, and; plans for future calls for applications under funding schemes in the coming months, are set out below. The Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (RRDF) recently announced the Fifth Call for...