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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (22 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned is now fully paid up to the 24th November 2018 and arrears due have been issued. 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 matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (22 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned is medically certified and paid up to the 15th November 2018. This customers next medical certificate was due on the 16th 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (22 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: One-Parent Family Payment Payments (22 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The customer’s One Parent Family (Jobseekers Transition) Payment had a Penalty Rate applied.  This decision was reviewed and the penalty rate was lifted. The arrears issued to the customer on 15 November 2018. I trust this clarifies the matter. 

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications (22 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Partial Capacity Benefit claim for the person concerned has now been processed and all payments and arrears due to him up to 20th November 2018 have been issued.  I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (22 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned has been processed and all arrears due up to the 10th September 2018, the date of the customers final medical certificate, have been issued. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (22 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned is both certified and paid up to 14th 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 to him. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (22 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is in receipt of a Jobseekers payment and was requested on 30th October 2018 to submit documentation to show that they are genuinely seeking work (GSW). Unfortunately the person concerned returned limited information relating to efforts seek work. It was then considered that the person concerned was not genuinely seeking full-time employment....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (22 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned has been processed and any arrears due have been issued. The claim is paid up to the 26th November 2018 and medically certified up to the 29th November 2018. If the person concerned remains ill and unfit for work after that date,  further medical certificate should be submitted to the Department in order for further...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (22 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received from the person concerned on the 23rd April 2018.  The application was not allowed as the child was not considered to satisfy the qualifying conditions for the allowance.  A letter issued on the 3rd July 2018 setting out the decision of the deciding officer to refuse the allowance. An...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (21 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned is now certified and paid up to 20th November 2018 and any arrears due have been issued. If he 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 matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (21 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Credited contributions (credits) are social insurance contributions designed to protect the social insurance entitlement record of insured workers who are not in a position to make PRSI contributions, and are awarded in circumstances such as proven unemployment or illness.  In order to qualify for credits, a person must first have entered insurable employment - he or she must have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (21 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Jobseeker claims for people living in the Ashbourne and Ratoath  area are administered by the Intreo Centre in Finglas and claims for those living  in Dunboyne are administered in Maynooth. Signing-on for the majority of jobseekers usually occurs no more than once in any 4-week period.  Customers can refer to www.welfare.ie for useful information on all services...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (21 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly tax-free payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. An application for WFP was received from the person concerned on 02 November 2018. Further information is required to process the application and the case was referred to a local Social Welfare Officer (SWI) on 21st November 2018. On receipt of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 29th May 2018.  It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection  These papers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (21 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department administers the Illness Benefit (IB) scheme to those customers who cannot work because they are sick or ill provided they are covered by the appropriate class of social insurance (PRSI) and satisfy the PRSI conditions. One of these conditions is that a person must have a required number of paid or  credited contributions in the year that governs the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (21 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Approved retirement funds or ARFs are funds managed by a qualifying fund manager into which an individual may invest the proceeds of their pension fund when they retire. The income and gains of such funds are exempt from tax within the fund. Any amounts withdrawn from an ARF are referred to as a distribution. A distribution is treated as income from an employment. It is subject to income tax...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (21 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: As stated in the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 15 November 2018, the age-related reduced rate of €100 per week for Jobseeker's Allowance recipients was introduced in Budget 2010 in respect of 18 and 19 year olds, and extended in subsequent Budgets to those under the age of 25. The following table shows the financial savings (i.e. the estimated cost that...

Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: I am pleased to have the opportunity to introduce the Bill. The Government is delivering on its commitments and this Bill is being brought forward in response to the commitment in A Programme for a Partnership Government to tackle “the problems caused by the increased casualisation of work and to strengthen the regulation of precarious work”. If enacted, this Bill will improve...

Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Bill is more than three years in the making and it is important for Senators to understand the work that has gone into the Bill, including the extensive consultations that have helped to shape and focus it. This work includes the UL study and the public consultation that followed it and it also includes detailed discussions with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, and the Irish...