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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Whenever a claim is made for a Social Welfare payment, a Deciding Officer must have sufficient information to assess whether all of the necessary eligibility criteria for that payment have been met, as laid down in the Social Welfare Consolidation Act and/or the applicable Regulations and Guidelines. For example, Fuel Allowance is an administrative scheme where a claimant must meet the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned has been processed and arrears owing to him have been issued. The claim is both certified and paid up to the 22nd November 2018. If the person concerned remains ill and unfit for work, a further medical certificate should be submitted to the Department as soon as possible in order for further payments to issue. I trust this clarifies the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Occupational Injuries Benefit Applications (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is currently in receipt of Illness Benefit pending a decision on her Occupational Injury Benefit claim. According to our records she does not qualify for payment of an increase by way of Child Dependant Allowance (CDA) due to the level of her spouses earnings in the current tax year. If her spouses earnings are less than €400 per week she should forward proof of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Paternity Leave Data (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The information requested in respect of the number of people that have availed of paternity benefit in 2016, 2017 and from 1st January 2018 to 31st October 2018, by county, is set out in the table below: PATERNITY BENEFIT Claimants by County Breakdown County Awarded 1st September 2016 - 31st December 2016 Awarded 2017 Awarded 1st January 2018 – 31st October 2018 Total Awarded Carlow...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Leave (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: I regret that the county breakdown requested by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department. However, the Department holds a county by county breakdown of maternity benefit claims currently in payment. Please see table below, giving a listing of recipients by county at the end of October 2018. Maternity Benefit in payment at the end of October 2018 County Recipients CARLOW 244...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: My officials are currently examining the claim for the person concerned with a view to addressing the query. Officials will revert directly to the Deputy at the earliest opportunity with the information he has requested and will also contact the person concerned directly. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The customer is currently in receipt of the One Parent Family Payment and the Working Family Payment. She made an application for Back to Education Allowance on 6 September 2018. Customers in receipt of the Working Family Payment are not eligible for Back to Education Allowance. A decision letter issued to the customer on 11 September 2018 advising her that her application had been refused...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: A fuel allowance is a payment under the National Fuel Scheme to help with the cost of heating a home during the winter months. It is paid to people who are in receipt of certain qualifying social welfare payments and who also satisfy certain other conditions. Carer's allowance (CA) is not a qualifying payment for receipt of fuel allowance. The person concerned is in receipt of CA and a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (29 Nov 2018)

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 1 October 2018. The application is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned contacted the Community Welfare Service on 22/11/2018. An application form for Supplementary Welfare Allowance issued to the person concerned on the same date. The application will be assessed upon receipt of completed documentation and the person concerned will be notified of the outcome. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department’s main social welfare schemes for people who are unemployed are the jobseeker’s allowance and the jobseekers benefit schemes. Both schemes provide significant support to individuals so that they can work up to 3 days a week and still retain access to a reduced jobseeker’s payment. The 2018 Estimates for my Department provide for expenditure this year on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Dietary Allowance Administration (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Diet supplement, administered under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, is payable to qualifying persons, in receipt of the supplement prior to February 2014, who have been prescribed a special diet as a result of a specified medical condition. There are currently 2,500 in receipt of diet supplement at a cost of €1.4 million in 2018. Following the outcome of a review of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The new scheme for the self-employed, which I announced as part of the 2019 Budget measures, will extend a PSRI insurance based benefit to the self-employed who lose employment. This measure builds on other significant improvements for the self-employed in recent years such as access to invalidity pension and treatment benefits in Budget 2017. Applicants will have to satisfy the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The issue of extending additional social insurance benefits to the self-employed paying class S PRSI was considered in the Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance fund (SIF) as at 31 December, 2015, which I published on the 18 October 2017. The review, required by legislation, was carried out by independent consultants, KPMG. It examines the projected income and expenditure of the SIF over...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The letter received by the person concerned dated the 8th November 2018 regarding Illness Benefit inadvertently issued and can be ignored. The Department apologises for any confusion this may have caused. The person concerned was paid Invalidity Pension up to 12/9/18. She has returned to work. An entitlement to Partial Capacity Benefit has been considered, and a Deciding Officer determined...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Re-Engage Youth Employment Programme was a pilot initiative funded under the Department’s Community Employment programme (CE) over the past three years. The programme engages young people in Ballymun in a number employment, education and training activation supports. The initiative brings a number of real benefits to the participants. Officials from the Department are in on going...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Support Grant (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Carer’s Support Grant is an annual payment made by my Department to full-time carers. The person concerned was recently awarded the 2017 and 2018 Grants. An amount of €3,400 (€1,700 in respect of each year) will be available for collection by her, at Castleisland Post Office, from Thursday 6thDecember onwards. Her claim for a 2016 Grant was refused as her...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Review (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, decided to disallow the appeal of the person concerned by way of a summary decision on 1 November 2018. Under Social Welfare legislation, the decision of the Appeals Officer is final and conclusive and may only be reviewed by an Appeals Officer in the light of new...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person concerned on 19 June 2018. Additional information in relation to the person’s application was requested by a deciding officer on 1 October 2018 and again on 12 November 2018. Once the information is received the application will be processed without delay and the person concerned will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (28 Nov 2018)

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. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 17 July 2018. The application is currently being processed...