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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (31 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is currently in receipt of Illness Benefit and all arrears due to her have been issued. She was previously in receipt of Basic Supplementary Welfare Allowance and was paid up to the 16th January 2019. Her Illness Benefit claim has been fully paid up to the 22nd January 2019, which is the date on her most recent medical certificate. If the person concerned remains ill...

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

Regina Doherty: The Back to Work Enterprise Allowance (BTWEA) is designed to provide a monetary incentive for people who are on social welfare payments to develop a business while allowing them to retain a reducing proportion of their qualifying social welfare payment over two years; 100% in year 1 and 75% in year 2. Periods spent on a Community Employment Scheme count towards the qualifying period for...

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

Regina Doherty: The Community Employment (CE) placements are categorised into two strands, Social Inclusion and Activation. The Social Inclusion placements are generally engaged in significant levels of local service support and delivery and are more suited to adults who need additional supports e.g. older unemployed workers, persons with a disability, travellers, homeless people, refugees, those requiring...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (31 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that a domiciliary care allowance appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on the 28th January 2019. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these papers have been received from the Department,...

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

Regina Doherty: The National Policy Framework for Children and Young People (Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures), published by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in 2014, includes a target to reduce by two-thirds the number of children in consistent poverty in 2011 by 2020. Meeting this target means lifting more than 70,000 children out of poverty by that date. Under the BOBF Framework, 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. An increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. I confirm that my department received an application for CARB from the person concerned on the 10 January 2019. The application is currently being...

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

Regina Doherty: Unfortunately, the position of the Illness Benefit application from the person concerned remains unchanged. As previously advised the person concerned does not satisfy the PRSI contribution conditions necessary for payment of Illness Benefit. In order to qualify for Illness Benefit a person must have a minimum of 104 total PRSI contributions paid. They also must have 39 weeks of PRSI...

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

Regina Doherty: Jobseeker's Allowance (JA) is a means-tested payment made to people who are unemployed. In order to determine means, the person concerned provided payment details for one day's employment for the week in question. Based on this information, the means calculated exceeded the weekly entitlement therefore no JA was payable to the person concerned for that week. I hope this clarifies the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pensions Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: The overarching objective of the IORP II directive is to facilitate the development of occupational retirement savings in every EU country. Many of the provisions contained in the directive will support positive reform of the Irish occupational pension sector. The implementation of the directive will greatly enhance scheme governance and consumer protection for pensioners, members and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pensions Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: With the height of respect, I do not believe the Deputy's information is not accurate. The application of the directive is prospective, so all of the 1,250 small self-administered pension schemes in Dundalk to which he refers are entirely safe. There is no risk of the loss of the 30 jobs to which the Deputy alluded because none of the current practices are changing. The directive only...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (30 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: Rent supplement continues its vital role in housing families and individuals for which the Government has provided €132.4 million for 2019. The strategic goal of returning rent supplement to its original purpose; that of a short-term income support, has been primarily facilitated by the introduction of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP). The “Rebuilding Ireland - Action...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (30 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: 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. My department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 28 June 2018. The evidence submitted in support of this application was examined and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commencement of Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: Under current legislation, a Public Services Card (PSC) cannot be requested by any public or private body or person that is not designated as a specified body in Schedule 5 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (as amended). The PSC can only be used by public bodies specified in this legislation when conducting a public transaction with the person concerned. One of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (30 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: The JobPath service is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed, including those working part time, to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. All jobseekers in receipt of a Jobseeker's payment from my Department are required to be available for and seeking full time employment. In the case of clients already in part-time employment, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (30 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an 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 26 November 2018. The Department wrote to the applicant on 25 January 2019 and has requested additional information. On receipt of the requested details from the person concerned their WFP...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Income Data (30 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: The collation of the information requested by the Deputy does not fall under the remit of my Department, but is rather a matter for the Central Statistics Office.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (30 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: According to our records no application has been received from the named person in respect of assistance in obtaining a motorised buggy. The named person may apply for an Exceptional Needs Payment (ENP) to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection's representative at his local Intreo Centre. I trust this clarifies the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (30 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: The aim of Community Employment is to enhance the employability and mobility of disadvantaged and unemployed persons by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their communities. It also helps long-term unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work routine. CE schemes are typically...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (30 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. The exact amount of hours or days for which care must be provided is not defined in legislation. Full-time care and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (30 Jan 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 16 November 2018. The application is currently being processed and once completed, the person concerned will be notified directly of the...