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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Government acknowledges the valuable role that family carers play and is fully committed to supporting carers in that role. This commitment is recognised in both the Programme for Government and the National Carers’ Strategy. The main income supports to carers provided by my department are Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Department provides a range of supports to assist individuals to return to employment. The supports referred to by the Deputy are interventions designed to address differing requirements at various times during a persons transition to employment, taking into account a number of factors including duration of unemployment. It would not be appropriate to set standard waiting periods. A short...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: In September 2022, I announced a series of landmark reforms to the State Pension system. The measures are in response to the Pensions Commission’s recommendations and represent the biggest ever structural reform of the Irish State Pension system. One of the measures announced is the introduction of flexibility to the State Pension (Contributory), allowing a person to defer access to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: One of the landmark reforms to the State Pension system that I announced in September of last year is a ten-year phased transition to the Total Contributions Approach and the abolition of the Yearly Average method. This was part of recommendations from the independent Pensions Commission following its in-depth analysis of the State pension system. During the transition period, individual...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The State Pension (Contributory) system currently gives significant recognition to those whose work history includes an extended period of time outside the paid workplace, often to raise families or in a full-time caring role. PRSI Credits, Homemaking Disregards and HomeCaring Periods recognise caring periods of up to 20 years outside of paid employment in the calculation of a payment rate....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The introduction of an Auto Enrolment Retirement Savings System is a Programme for Government commitment, and a key priority for me as Minister for Social Protection. Last year, I published 'The Design Principles for Ireland’s Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System', which set out the new system in detail. Implementation of the AE system has been gathering pace since then,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 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. A person can be providing full-time care and attention where they are engaged in employment, self-employment or on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Rent supplement continues to play a key role in supporting families and individuals in private rented accommodation, with the scheme supporting 8,540 active recipients at the end of August 2023. The provisional expenditure for rent supplement paid by the Department of Social Protection at end of August 2023 was €42.6 million. The scheme provides short-term income support to eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance 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 CA was received from the person concerned on 16 June 2023. It is a condition for receipt of CA that the applicant’s means are less than the statutory limit. Means...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 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. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 28 June 2023. A person can be considered to be providing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. I confirm that my Department received an application for DA from the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The customer is in receipt of an increase for a qualified adult on their spouse’s State Pension (Contributory). An increase for qualified adult is a means-tested payment, payable to a claimant whose spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is being wholly or mainly maintained by them, and where that qualified adult’s personal means from any source does not exceed the means limit....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. I confirm that my Department received an application for DA from the person concerned on 16...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 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. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 20...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. I confirm that my Department received an application for DA from the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 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. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 24...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned was in receipt of Disability Allowance (DA) from 14 March 2018. A review of their entitlement commenced in April 2023, and they were requested to provide relevant documentation to a Social Welfare Inspector. This information, to validate their ongoing DA entitlement, was not provided and therefore their weekly payment was suspended with effect from 31 May 2023. A letter...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. I confirm that my Department received an application for DA from the person concerned on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. I can confirm that the Department received an application for DA from the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (3 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My Department has not received an application for Disability Allowance from the person in question. However, an application for Invalidity Pension (IP) was received from the person concerned on 29 May 2023. Based on the information supplied with this application, they were deemed not medically eligible, in line with the conditions for IP. They were not considered to be permanently...