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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Applications (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: This person made an application for One Parent Family Payment on 31stMay 2018. In order to make a decision on her application the deciding officer requested additional information. To date this has not been received. I trust that this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 21stJune 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 papers have been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who will consider the appeal in light of all the evidence submitted. It is expected that a decision will issue to the person concerned within the next week. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: An application from the person concerned for an exceptional needs payment was refused on the 15/05/18 as their combined income is in excess of the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) rate for their family size. There has also been additional lodgements into their account over a two month period, separate to their usual incomes. A formal written decision was sent to the person concerned,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 26thApril 2018. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these papers have been received from the Department, the case in question will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The social welfare payments in place specifically for lone parents are the One-Parent Family Payment (OFP) and Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment (JST). Under the current social welfare legislation in order to qualify for payment of OFP, an applicant must be a qualified parent of at least one relevant child who is ordinarily resident in the State, is not detained in a children detention...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Data (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Working Family Payment currently benefits approximately 56,700 families in respect of over 127,000 children. One-Parent Family Payment currently supports 39,580 lone parents and 72,578 children. Of these, some 6,700 are also in receipt of WFP. Figures provided are in respect of May 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 893 and 896 together. Research repeatedly shows that the best way to tackle poverty among lone parents is through employment and the Indecon report on lone parents, published in 2017, echoed this view. The report found that the changes made to the one-parent family payment scheme in 2012 increased employment and reduced welfare dependency. It also found...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department, in conjunction with the Department of Education and Skills, offers a wide range of financial supports to lone parents that allow them to participate in a variety of educational and employment programmes. For example, lone parents in receipt of One-Parent Family Payment (OFP) or Jobseekers Transitional payment (JST) who wish to participate in second or third-leveleducation can...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Working Family Payment (formerly FIS) was introduced in 1984 and is an in-work support that provides an income top-up for employees on low earnings. WFP is designed to prevent in-work poverty for low paid workers with child dependants and to offer a financial incentive to take-up employment. My Department regularly reviews its schemes to ensure that they continue to meet their policy...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: A review of Rent Supplement entitlement was undertaken in April 2018 in the case of the person concerned. On completion of this review the rate of Rent Supplement was assessed at €490 per calendar month. This constituted a reduction in payment due to the fact that a child dependant had reached the age of 18, is in receipt of a social welfare payment in their own right and is thus...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance Eligibility (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned was awarded Back to Work Family Dividend Scheme on the 4th April 2018 effective from the 27th March 2018. I trust that this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Foster Care Supports (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: This is a matter for my colleague in Department of Children and Youth Affairs, who administrators the foster care allowance scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: Fuel allowance is a means-tested payment to assist those on long-term social welfare payments with their heating costs. Only one allowance is paid per household. Eligibility is subject to a household means test and other qualifying conditions, such as household composition. With regard to means, a person may have a combined household income of up to €100.00 per week over and above the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (10 Jul 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 person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. I confirm that my department received an application for CA from the person concerned on 26 February 2018. Additional information and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: An application for Working Family Payment (WFP) was received from the person concerned on 28 March 2018. In order to determine entitlement to WFP, all applications must be fully completed and signed by the claimant so that a claim can be processed. The application form (FIS1) submitted by the person concerned could not be processed as Part 8 (employer details) of the form was incomplete. WFP...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned was awarded widowed parent grant on 15 March 2018 and a payment of €6,000 was lodged to his nominated account in a financial institution. The person concerned is currently in receipt of one-parent family payment. Neither the person concerned, nor their late spouse, have sufficient social insurance contributions paid in Ireland to qualify the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: Jobpath is an employment activation service to support unemployed jobseekers to secure and sustain full time paid employment or self-employment. Two companies, Turas Nua and Seetec are contracted by my Department to deliver the JobPath services. Since 1 June 2018, it is open to persons attending a JobPath provider to take up a position on a Community Employment (CE) scheme on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: According to the records of my Department, the person concerned has a social insurance record of 650 reckonable paid and credited contributions, from September 1969 to end-December 2017, giving them a yearly average of 15. In arriving at this yearly average, disregards for home-making periods were applied and the person concerned qualified for a reduced rate state pension (contributory)....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy is aware, Community Employment (CE) scheme supervisors are employees of private companies in the community and voluntary sector that receive public funding. They are not employees of my Department or public servants, and as such were not subject to pay reductions under the provisions of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) which only applied to public...