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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Since the end of September 2018, my Department has been examining the social insurance records of pensioners born on or after 1 September 1946 who were awarded state pension (contributory) on reduced post Budget 2012 rate bands. Information letters were issued to these pensioners explaining that my Department will contact them again to either inform them about the outcome of their review or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Since the end of September 2018, my Department has been examining the social insurance records of pensioners born on or after 1 September 1946 who were awarded state pension (contributory) on reduced post Budget 2012 rate bands. Information letters were issued to these pensioners explaining that my Department will contact them again to either inform them about the outcome of their review or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in-work payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. An application for WFP was received from the person concerned on 21 January 2019. The Department wrote to the applicant on 31 January 2019 to request further details. On receipt of the requested details, the application will be processed without delay...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Work Family Dividend Scheme (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: A claim for Back to Work Family Dividend was made by the person in question on 10 January, 2019. This claim was awarded on 29 January, 2019 effective from 10 January, 2019. The Back to Work Family Dividend claim has now been suspended as the spouse of the person in question has been awarded a Jobseeker's Allowance payment. The person in question no longer has an entitlement to a Back to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: A claim for Jobseeker’s Allowance by the person in question was registered in Roscommon Intreo Centre on 22 January, 2019. It was necessary to seek further information from the person in question and this information was received on 29 January. The Jobseeker’s Allowance claim has now been decided and a payment will be made on Thursday 7 February. Claims are decided as soon as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. In order to qualify for WFP, the applicant or the applicant and their spouse, partner or cohabitant must be engaged in full-time remunerative employment as an employee for not less than 38 hours per fortnight. An application for WFP was received from the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Class S PRSI was introduced for the self-employed in 1988. Prior to 1988 the self-employed could maintain their social insurance record by paying Voluntary Contributions, once they had already been an employed contributor and met the qualifying conditions of the Voluntary Contributions scheme. Generally, Voluntary Contributions maintained entitlement to a limited range of pension payments,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: My officials have made contact with the Deputy's office and on discussion it would appear this question is appropriate to my colleague Minister Heather Humphreys T.D. in the Department of Business , Enterprise and Innovation.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Data (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, the Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. An urgent needs payment (UNP) may be made to persons who may not normally qualify for SWA but who have an urgent need which they cannot meet...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: At the outset, it should be noted that credited contributions do not assist a person in qualifying for a pension, in the way that paid contributions do. They may, however, improve the rate of payment for which a pensioner qualifies. The farm assist scheme was introduced in 1999 to provide income support for low income farmers. It replaced the former smallholders’ unemployment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Data (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Since the end of September 2018, my Department has been examining the social insurance records of pensioners born on or after 1 September 1946 who were awarded state pension (contributory) on reduced post Budget 2012 rate bands. Due to the numbers involved, the process will take a number of months to complete. Where possible, my Department will use information already held to assist...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Since the end of September 2018, my Department has been examining the social insurance records of pensioners born on or after 1 September 1946 who were awarded state pension (contributory) on reduced post Budget 2012 rate bands. Information letters were issued to these pensioners explaining that my Department will contact them again to either inform them about the outcome of their review or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Applications (31 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned's Jobseekers Benefit payment exhausted on 20/07/16 and he signed for Jobseekers Credits from 24/02/17. He has not made any paid contributions since 2014. The criteria for extended JB claims for customers aged 65 - 66 years are as follows: (a) If the period of unemployment is continuous and if the claim is within 2 years of the previous JB claim (Section 62 (6) of SW...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (31 Jan 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. I confirm that my department received an application for CA from the person concerned on the 24 October 2018. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 235 and 236 together. There is no statutory retirement age in the State, and the age at which employees retire is a matter for the contract of employment between them and their employers. While such a contract may have been entered into with a retirement date of 65, in the context of the previous State pension arrangements, there is no legal impediment to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (31 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: The jobseeker’s benefit and jobseeker’s allowance schemes provide income support for people who have lost work and are unable to find alternative full-time employment. The 2019 Estimates for my Department provide for expenditure this year on the jobseeker’s schemes of €1.95 billion. The jobseekers allowance scheme is a means tested payment which is already...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (31 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: The individual concerned is currently employed on a Community Employment scheme and the Deputy’s question is in relation to an extension of the individual’s participation on the scheme. In this case, the standard period of participation for the individual in question is for a period of 52 weeks. However, as the Deputy will be aware, there is provision to extend an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (31 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work weekly payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. An application for WFP was received from the person concerned on 13 December 2018. The applicant has been awarded WFP with effect from 13 September 2018 to 11 September 2019. The first weekly payment and all arrears owing will issue to their nominated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (31 Jan 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. I confirm that my department received an application for CA from the person concerned on the 19 July 2019. It is a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (31 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. I confirm that my department received an application for CARB from the person concerned on the 31 December 2018. Additional information was requested from the person concerned on 28 January 2019 in relation to discharge dates from...