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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: General Practitioner Services (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: In August 2018, my Department introduced a new claim form and medical certificate to replace the previous forms used for certification of the Department’s illness and injury benefit schemes.  The introduction of new forms is designed to improve the administration of the certification process and to make claim and payment procedures more efficient for everyone involved –...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment service, which helps long-term unemployed people to secure and sustain paid employment. There are two phases to the service.  During the first phase, of 12 months duration, a personal advisor, PA, provides practical assistance in searching, preparing for, securing and sustaining employment.  The second phase starts if the jobseeker is successful in finding...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The social welfare appeals office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 13 July 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My  Department issued over 670,500 Public Services Cards, PSCs, in 2017 and, to the end of September 2018, just under 480,000 PSCs have been issued. Over 2.92 million people are SAFE registered. The average number of SAFE registrations per month, for the last six months, is just over 37,000.  This has reduced from an average of over 45,000 per...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ministerial Meetings (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection has not met the named person or representatives of companies in the past three years to date.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (23 Oct 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. I confirm that my Department received an application for CA from the person concerned on the 31 July 2018. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Data (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department’s Scope section determines employment status and the correct class of pay-related social insurance (PRSI). Where misclassification of workers as self-employed is detected, the correct status and class is determined and social insurance arrears are collected as required. I understand that the Deputy is seeking information on the overall number of persons that were...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The costs sought by the Deputy are presented in the table.  The costs are based on the estimated numbers of recipients in 2019, and include the cost of proportionate increases in reduced rates and the qualified adult rates of payment, where applicable. It should be noted that these costs do not take into account changing trends (increases or decreases) in recipient numbers from 2019...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (23 Oct 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 designed to prevent in-work poverty for low paid workers with qualified children and to offer a financial incentive to take up employment. In line with Budget 2019 provisions, WFP recipients will benefit from a new maintenance disregard....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Delays (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was received by that office on 31 August 2018. The appeal was accompanied by the relevant Departmental papers. The case was  referred to an Appeals Officer on 18 October 2018 who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Reform (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department recently moved to a new IT system and this has impacted on payments to some Illness Benefit (IB) customers. The transition has involved moving from a payment in arrears system to a real-time system for IB.  The Department acknowledges that this move has caused difficulties for some customers leading to a large volume of calls to its helpline and long delays in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobsPlus is an employer incentive which encourages and rewards employers who offer employment opportunities to the long term unemployed. It provides employers with two levels of payment: €7,500 and €10,000. Any jobseeker who has been in receipt of a jobseekers payment from this Department for the minimum required period will be considered eligible to be recruited under this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (23 Oct 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 allow 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: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 649 and 663 together. My Department has prepared a report which examines the jobseekers benefit scheme duration and seasonal and part-time workers who have subsidiary employment. It also examines the daily earnings limit of €12.70 that currently applies to employment classed as subsidiary. The daily earnings limits  is provided by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Authority Funding (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department makes funding to local authorities through 2 main programmes - Employment Schemes and the School Meals Programme.  In 2016, funding of €7.8m was made to local authorities.  The figure for 2017 was €7.0m. Funding provided to Local Authorities by the Department of Employment Affairs & Social Protection, 2016-2017: - 2016 2017 Employment Schemes...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (23 Oct 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 5 February 2018. The application was awarded to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Back to Education Allowance scheme (BTEA) is designed to support second chance education.It enables eligible persons to pursue approved education courses and to continue to receive income support for the duration of a course of study, subject to meeting certain conditions. Entitlement to BTEA is conditional on having ongoing entitlement to the qualifying scheme payment.BTEA participants...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department recently moved to a new IT system and this has impacted on payments to some Illness Benefit (IB) customers. The transition has involved moving from a payment in arrears system to a real-time system for IB.  The Department acknowledges that this move has caused difficulties for some customers leading to a large volume of calls to its helpline and long delays in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (23 Oct 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 25 October 2017. The application was awarded to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (23 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Rent supplement plays a vital role in housing families and individuals, with the scheme supporting approximately 26,500 recipients for which the Government has provided €180 million for in 2018. Details of the number of rent supplement recipients for the years 2014 to 2017 and for the nine months ending September 2018 are provided in the attached tabular statement....