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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Benefit is a Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) based 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. It is payable for a period of 2 years (104 weeks) for each care recipient and may be claimed over separate periods up to a total of 2 years (104 weeks). Before a decision...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The €200 lump sum payment, which will be paid to over 1.3 million recipients in receipt of long-term social welfare payments. This lump sum will be paid in April and will cost approximately €261 million. This support will be paid on a similar basis to the Christmas Bonus, including to those on jobseeker's payments or Illness Benefit for over 12 months; with the addition of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance scheme is a means-tested payment to assist qualified householders on long-term social welfare payments and people aged 70 and over towards their winter heating costs. Only one Fuel Allowance is payable per household. Those who qualify for the payment do not need to reapply annually. Extensive information on Fuel Allowance is provided by my Department through the local...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 Mar 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 Benefits (8 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: There are currently 124,706 persons in receipt of widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's contributory pension. The Widows, Widowers or Surviving Civil Partners Contributory Pension is paid to the spouse or civil partner of a deceased person. It is a weekly pension, available to those who satisfy the necessary PRSI contribution conditions, either on their own record or on that of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (8 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Act 2020, provided, amongst other provisions, for the attribution of social insurance contributions to insured persons who were beneficiaries of certain Covid-19 income support payments. These payments included the pandemic unemployment payment and the temporary wage subsidy scheme. The attribution of contributions measure ensured that the social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (8 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My Department’s Scope Section deals with decisions relating to PRSI insurability, including employment status. Where it is determined that a worker has been misclassified as self-employed for some or all an employment, PRSI arrears to reflect the correct contribution class are assessed against the employer for the entire period of the misclassification, and the employee record is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: 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 2 September 2022. Domiciliary...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 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 on 18...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Mar 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. Providing an accurate projection of the cost of extending the Free Travel scheme to those who have a long-term illness card...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Mar 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. Providing an accurate projection of the cost of extending the free travel scheme to all children in respect of whom a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Mar 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. Providing an accurate projection of the cost of extending the free travel scheme to those in receipt of the Carer's Support...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (8 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 30 July 2022. It is a statutory requirement...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (8 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My Department supports playgrounds in communities throughout Ireland to ensure they remain vibrant and sustainable places to live. The CLÁR Programme provides funding for small-scale projects in designated rural areas that have experienced significant levels of de-population over a defined period. The CLÁR 2022 programme awarded a record €12.2 million in funding supporting...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 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 Payments (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 412 and 428 together. I recently announced a further range of measures to support individuals and families with the cost of living. This package includes a €200 lump sum payment, which will be paid to over 1.3 million recipients in receipt of long-term social welfare payments. This lump sum will be paid in April and will cost approximately €261...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Occupational Injuries Benefit is an income support provided by my Department to those who got injured at work or travelling to and from work, or who contracted a prescribed disease at work. Covid-19 does not constitute a prescribed disease or illness as set out in the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 as it does not meet the criteria laid down in the Act. Section 87 (2) of the Act states...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Under current eligibility conditions, an individual must have 520 full-rate paid contributions in order to qualify for standard State pension (contributory). According to the records of my Department, the person concerned has a total of 324 reckonable contributions. As the person concerned does not have the minimum of 520 full-rate paid Irish contributions they do not qualify for an Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: 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. An application for Carer's Allowance (CA) was received from the person concerned on 1 September 2022. It is a condition for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Partial Capacity Benefit is a scheme which extends the Illness Benefit and Invalidity Pension schemes to recognise and respond to the reality that some people in receipt of these payments have a capacity to engage in open market employment while continuing to need to receive some income support from the State. People in receipt of Invalidity Pension or Illness Benefit (the latter for a...