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

Regina Doherty: An application for carer's allowance (CA) was received from the person concerned on 6 June 2018. It is a condition for receipt of a CA that the person being cared for must have such disability that they require full-time care and attention. This is defined as requiring from another person, continual supervision and frequent assistance throughout the day in connection with normal bodily...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (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 person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. It is a condition for receipt of CA that the means of the person concerned must be less than the statutory limit. Means are any income of the...

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

Regina Doherty: Firstly may I take this opportunity to extend my condolences to the person concerned and her family on their recent bereavement. I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 24 May 2018. CA was awarded to the person concerned on 26 September 2018 with effect from 24 May 2018 to 28 November 2018, this includes 12 weeks...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (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, has decided to disallow the appeal of the person concerned by way of a summary decision. The person concerned has been notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred on 23rd November 2018 to an Appeals Officer who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred on 23rd November 2018 to an Appeals Officer who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: EU Directives (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The over-arching objective of IORP II Directive is to facilitate the development of occupational retirement savings in the EU. Many of the provisions contained within the directive will support positive reform of the Irish occupational pension sector. The directive provides for a range of new requirements concerning governance, management standards in schemes, safekeeping of assets, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Whether social insurance contributions made by self-employed persons before 1987 are reckonable for pension purposes will depend upon the nature of those contributions. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: On 23 January last, the Government agreed to allow pensioners, born on or after the 1st September 1946, affected by the 2012 changes in rate bands, to have their state pension (contributory) entitlement calculated under an interim “Total Contributions Approach” (TCA). The changes also provide for up to 20 years of home caring periods in the calculation of that entitlement, for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: General Practitioner Contracts (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department has been made aware of a number of instances of customers being asked by individual GPs to pay a fee in order to receive a medical certificate. This is at variance with the Department's contract under which the GP is obliged to complete and return specified medical report forms (including medical certificates), free of charge to the patient, when requested to do so by the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The household benefits package (HHB) comprises the electricity or gas allowance, and the free television licence. My Department will spend approximately €237 million this year on HHB for over 440,000 customers. There have been no recent changes to the eligibility criteria for the HHB package. The package is generally available to people living in the State aged 66 years or over...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Reviews (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The sections in Part 9 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 (CFRA 2015) that the Deputy refers to are amendments to the Civil Registration Act 2004 (CRA 2004) that allow for the registration and re-registration of births of donor-conceived children. These provisions fall within my remit, and as such, I can inform the Deputy that I intend to introduce a number of amendments to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Appeals (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: On 23 January last, the Government agreed to allow pensioners, born on or after the 1st September 1946, affected by the 2012 changes in rate bands, to have their state pension (contributory) entitlement calculated under an interim “Total Contributions Approach” (TCA).  The changes also provide for up to 20 years of home caring periods...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Appeals (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly tax free payment which provides additional income support to employees, with children, on low earnings. The applicant, in order to qualify for working family payment, must be engaged in full-time remunerative employment as an employee for no less than 38 hours in a fortnight. According to our records Mr Miguel’s employment ceased on 31...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned is medically certified and paid up to the 29th November 2018. If the person concerned remains ill and unfit for work, a further medical certificate should be submitted to the Department in order for further payments to issue. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Partial Capacity Benefit (PCB) allows a person who has been in receipt of Invalidity Pension and who may not have full capacity for work, to return to employment and continue to receive a partial or full payment from the Department. The PCB claim for the person concerned is the subject of an appeal with the Social Welfare Appeals Office. A submission has been sent to the Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is in receipt of the maximum rate of Irish widow(er)’s or surviving civil  partner’s contributory pension payable under 66 years of age. The person concerned is also in receipt of a fuel allowance. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in the UK is the competent authority for the assessment of a person’s entitlement to benefits from the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned had an Occupational Injury Benefit (OIB) claim for period 3rd September 2018 to 20th October 2018 which was paid up to the final certificate date. Further medical certificates covering the period 12th November 2018 to the 25th November 2018 were received but no application claim form (IB1) was received. An IB1 application form has been issued to the person concerned and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The issues raised by the Deputy relate to a ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Gardella case, case C-233/12.  This is a complicated ruling and its implications are being considered by the various member States.  The complexity of the Court of Justice ruling on the impact of employments with an international organisation when calculating entitlement to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned has been processed and any arrears owing to him have been issued. The claim is both medically certified and paid up to 27 November 2018. If the customer 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...