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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (13 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Ireland has negotiated Bilateral Social Security Agreements with a number of counties. The main purpose of these Agreements is to protect the pension rights of people who have worked and paid social security contributions in Ireland and the countries with which Ireland has such agreements. This is achieved by allowing reckonable social security contributions paid in one or more of these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (13 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: I was pleased to announce on Budget Day that a 100% Christmas Bonus will be paid to some 1.2 million long-term social welfare recipients, including pensioners, people with disabilities, carers, lone parents and the long-term unemployed jobseekers, in recognition of their long-term financial dependence on their social welfare payments for all or most of their income. The Christmas bonus will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (13 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: I regret that the information requested is not readily available in my Department. However, figures for (a) the number of claims pending decision, and (b) the average processing time for claims, are shown in the following tabular statement (where available) in respect of my Department's principal schemes. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy. Total number of claims pending...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: I expect the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 will be in the Seanad before the end of the month.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Not only did I answer, as the Deputy rightly pointed out, on the Order of Business on Tuesday, but there was also a very lengthy Topical Issue Debate where the entire debacle was discussed by me and Deputy Thomas Pringle on Tuesday evening. The Secretary General, the head of the IT department and the assistant secretary were in front of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Government has set itself two headline targets for 2020: reducing the proportion of households that are jobless to 13% or less (from 18% in 2015), and reducing the share of the 18-59 population resident in such households to less than 8% (from 12% in 2015). Although the share of the population living in Jobless Households has fallen from a high of 23% in 2012 to 11.8%...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Occupational Injuries Benefit Applications (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Occupational Injury Benefit claim for the person concerned was disallowed. The reason for this decision is based on the statement from the person concerned, advising that he first noticed his incapacity before Christmas 2017. His incident at work did not occur until the February 8th 2018. Occupational Injury Benefit is only allowed in cases where the incapacity...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (8 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. WFP is payable for a 52 week period from award date and a person must reapply at the end of  this period to have their payment renewed. The person concerned was last awarded WFP with effect from 05 October 2017 to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (8 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: Illness Benefit Waiting Times (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Overall payment levels of Illness Benefit (IB) are now at their normal level.  For information, in any one week, circa 50,000 customers are entitled to an IB payment. Last week, circa 54,000 customer payments were made, approximately 4,000 payments in excess of the normal level, and this includes some customers due arrears. For any customers with arrears outstanding, the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned is both certified and paid up to 7th 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 matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (8 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: Illness Benefit Applications (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned is paid up until 7th November 2018. She is certified up to 22nd November 2018 so weekly payments will continue to issue up to that date. If the customer remains ill and unfit for work, a further medical certificate should be submitted to the Department on or before 23rd November in order for further payments to issue....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit (IB) claim for the person concerned is both medically certified and paid up 22nd October 2018. If the person remains ill and unfit for work, she should submit further medical certificates to the Department as soon as possible to ensure that payments may continue to issue to her.  I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned is now certified and paid to 6th 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 matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a person(s) in need of full-time care and attention. I confirm that my department received an application for CARB from the person concerned on the 3 September 2018.  The application is currently being processed and once completed, the person concerned will be notified directly of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The jobseeker’s allowance scheme provides income support for people who have lost work and are unable to find alternative full-time employment.  The 2018 Estimates for my Department provide for expenditure this year on the jobseeker’s schemes of €2.17 billion.     The qualifying conditions for receipt of jobseeker’s allowance require a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Partial Capacity Benefit (PCB) is a social welfare scheme which allows a person to return to work or self-employment (if they have reduced capacity to work) and continue to receive a payment from the Department. PCB does not currently have the flexibility to uplift payments in a week where little or no work has been available to the customer. However, the scheme is entirely voluntary and a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Data (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The accreditation of educational standards is not a matter for my Department.  According to the Department of Education and Skills there are no  “nationally accredited internships”.  Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) validates Further Education and Higher Education programmes in the public and private sectors, some of which have been validated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Costs (8 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Department would like to be clear that, as before, patients do not need to pay a fee to receive claim forms or medical certificates (IB1 and MED1 forms) from their GP, as the Department pays the doctor an agreed fee to provide them.  Should any person seeking to make a claim for Illness Benefit or another scheme experience a difficulty in getting a claim form or a...