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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications Data (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department is committed to providing a quality service to all its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on entitlement are made as quickly as possible. Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. An increased payment can be made...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: An application for carer’s benefit was received from the person concerned on 19 July 2018. The application was awarded to the person concerned with effect from 31 May 2018 when her carer’s leave commenced. The first payment will issue to her nominated post office on 11 October 2018. Arrears of benefit due from 31 May 2018 to 10 October 2018 will also issue to her post office...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department is committed to providing a quality service to all its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on entitlement are made as quickly as possible. The staffing needs for all areas within the Department are continuously reviewed, taking account of workloads, management priorities and the ongoing need to respond to new increasing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Correspondence issued to the customer in question on 28th June 2018 in response to a request for a review of an earlier decision. This correspondence outlined the detailed historical circumstances of the customer's Illness Benefit claim, advised them of the review decision and their associated right to appeal. I understand that an appeal request was lodged with the Department's Appeals...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is currently in receipt of a One Parent Family Payment which will terminate on 10/10/18 as she no longer fulfils the eligibility criteria for this payment support. The person concerned attended Edenderry Intreo Centre on 4/10/18 to submit an application for a Jobseeker's Allowance. A letter was issued on 8/10/18 confirming that a Jobseeker Allowance payment at the full...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Applications (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is currently in receipt of Illness Benefit (credits only) since 01 November 2017. He was in receipt of Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) from 7 November 2017 until 12 September 2018. His SWA claim was suspended on 12 September as he commenced full time education and accordingly not entitled to SWA. The person concerned did not make an application to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Literacy Programmes (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department is committed to the provision of information to all of its customers in clear and easy to access formats, which adhere to the guidelines outlined by the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA).  I fully recognise the barrier that literacy difficulties can cause for individuals who are trying to gain an understanding of and access to services and supports...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: On 23 January last, the Government agreed to my proposal that will allow pensioners affected by the 2012 changes in rate bands to have their pension entitlement calculated on a Total Contributions basis, including provision for up to 20 years of home caring in the calculation of that entitlement. A number of elements have to be put in place to facilitate the implementation of the rate...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Review (9 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. Once claims are in payment, the Department periodically reviews them to ensure that there is continued entitlement. In...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The customer made an application for Supplementary Welfare Allowance on 21 August 2018. The claim was disallowed as the customer was not habitually resident. A decision issued to the customer on 20 August 2018. The applicant has requested an appeal which has been referred to an Appeals Office who will make a decision based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The OFP scheme has played an important role in providing income support to lone parents since its introduction in 1997. However, in the past, this income support for lone parents was passive in nature, and involved limited engagement by the State employment services with OFP recipients. Research has shown that being at work reduces the at-risk-of-poverty rate for lone parents by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (9 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 27 June 2018. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: A payment increase to a Jobseekers payment for a Qualified Child is usually paid in circumstances here a child up to 18 years of age lives with the client. However, if a customer has been in receipt of a Jobseeker’s Allowance payment for at least 156 days and their child/children is in full-time education, an increase for a Qualified Child (IQC) will be paid up to 22 years of age, or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance 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. Foster care allowance is administered by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, which falls under the remit of the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Expenditure (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The fuel allowance is a payment of €22.50 per week for 27 weeks (a total of €607.50 each year) from October to April, to over 368,000 low income households, at an estimated cost of €227 million in 2018.  The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs.  The allowance represents a contribution towards the energy costs of a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The issues raised by the Deputy relate to a ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Gardellacase (Case C-233/12). This is a complicated ruling and its implications are being considered by the various Member States. The position remains as set out in the reply provided in response to your previous question. The complexity of the Court of Justice ruling on the impact of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Penalty rates were introduced in 2011 as a means of encouraging jobseekers to engage with activation measures and to co-operate with efforts of the Department to assist them in securing employment. The Department is committed, under Pathways to Work, to incentivise the take-up of activation opportunities, including implementing sanctions for failure to engage. The legislation underpinning...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is a service that supports people who are long-term unemployed to obtain and sustain paid employment. The service was launched in 2015 on a ‘rolling basis’ with referral numbers gradually increasing over time. JobPath providers do not apply or recommend the application of a penalty rate of payment. They simply advise the Department if a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The information requested by the Deputy is detailed in the following tabular statement. Carer’s Allowance Claims disallowed at initial application: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Jan-August2018 6,972 5,227 6,827 9,881 7,078 7,920 11,144 8,599 5,856

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Review (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by my Department that it does not hold records of the number of carer’s allowance cases where the decision of the Deciding Officer is reviewed and subsequently overturned without recourse to appeal. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for...