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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned is in receipt of a State Pension (contributory) payment from my Department which includes an Increase for their Qualified Adult. The Government is acutely aware of the effect that high energy prices and the cost of living are having on families, businesses and the most vulnerable. In addition to the substantial package of supports provided in Budget 2023, earlier this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The School Meals Programme provides funding towards the provision of food services to some 1,600 schools and organisations benefitting 260,000 children. The objective of the programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 21...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned is in receipt of a State Pension (contributory) payment from my Department which includes an Increase for their Qualified Adult. The Government is acutely aware of the effect that high energy prices and the cost of living are having on families, businesses and the most vulnerable. In addition to the substantial package of supports provided in Budget 2023, earlier this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. I confirm that my Department received an application for DA from the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Free Travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. There are over one million customers with direct eligibility. The estimated expenditure on free travel in 2023 is €95 million. It is important to note that, in general, access to a free travel pass for those aged under 66 is a secondary benefit linked...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. Carer’s Benefit is payable to a carer for up to a maximum of 104 weeks in respect of a care recipient. To qualify, the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in-work support which provides an income top-up for employees on low earnings with children. To qualify for Working Family Payment, the customer must be working a minimum of 38 hours per fortnight in ongoing insurable employment and have at least one qualified child who normally resides with them. An application for WFP was received by the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme, this Department may make Additional Needs Payments (ANPs) to help meet expenses that a person cannot pay from their weekly income. This is an overarching term used to refer to exceptional and urgent needs payments, and certain supplements to assist with ongoing or recurring costs that cannot be met from the customer’s own resources,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Government is acutely aware of the effect that high energy prices and the cost of living are having on families, businesses and the most vulnerable. In addition to the substantial package of supports provided in Budget 2023, earlier this year the Government announced a €470 million package of measures to help social protection recipients including families, pensioners, carers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 404 and 405 together. The One-Parent Family Payment is a payment for lone parents under 66, who are not cohabiting, and whose youngest child is under seven. The Jobseekers Transitional Payment is a special arrangement under the Jobseeker’s Allowance scheme for lone parents under 66 who are not cohabiting and whose child/children are between seven and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Last year, I announced a series of measures designed to remove barriers facing social welfare customers who choose to accommodate people in their own homes. In July 2022 I signed legislation, which introduced a disregard of up to €269.23 per week in respect of income from renting a room in their own home. This disregard means that a social welfare customer will be able to rent out a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Set out below in tabular format is the total amount stored in the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) investment account and in NTMA issued Exchequer notes at the 31 December for the years 2018 – 2022. Year End Social Insurance Fund Investment Account balance (€000) NTMA Exchequer Notes (€000) 2022 1,810,000 1,810,000 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The JobsPlus scheme is an incentive paid to employers who recruit long-term unemployed people for new positions in their workplace. Employers can avail of JobsPlus when filling new positions or positions that arise as a consequence of natural turnover and receive a subsidy of €7,500 or €10,000 per employee. The value of the grant is dependent on the age of the new employee and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The estimated full year cost of increasing the rate of Jobseeker's Allowance for young people aged under 25 years is €64.91 million. The costs shown above are on a full year basis and are based on the estimated number of recipients in 2023. It should be noted that these costings are subject to change in the context of emerging trends and associated revision of the estimated numbers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: In May 2022, I announced a series of measures designed to remove barriers facing social welfare customers who choose to accommodate people in their homes. In practice, this means that a social welfare customer will be able to rent out a room in their home to a person who is not an employee or an immediate family member, for up to just under €270 per week (equivalent of €14,000...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Department of Social Protection administers Ireland’s social protection system. Customers are required to provide personal data to determine eligibility for relevant payments and benefits. In the case of means tested payments, this often requires supporting documentary evidence of bank accounts to ensure that the Deciding Officer has all the necessary facts relevant to the claim in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Spring Cost of Living Bonus is one of the range of measures put in place to help social protection recipients including families, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities. It is one lump sum payment of €200 for each eligible person in receipt of a primary payment in their own right. The €200 lump sum payment was paid week commencing Monday 24th April 2023 to over 1.2...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: As part of the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025, Government committed to finalising an approach for the benchmarking and indexation of pension payments. A smoothed earnings method to calculating a benchmarked/indexed rate of State Pension payments was also recommended by the Commission on Pensions. Last September, I announced a series of landmark reforms to the State Pension system....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 10...