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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The 2014 provisions relating the extension of self-employed social insurance to spouse/civil partner performing the same or ancillary tasks as a self-employed worker, but who is not a business partner or an employee, were implemented on foot of Directive 2010/41/EU, relating to the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity in a self-employed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, my Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. The Government has provided over €36 million for exceptional payments in 2018. The ENP scheme is demand led and payments are made at the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Feb 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 the 24 January 2018. The application is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Make Work Pay (MWP) report was published on 6thApril 2017, following the deliberations of an interdepartmental group established under the Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities. The interdepartmental group considered a range of approaches across relevant Departments to deliver on this commitment and made 24 recommendations under the broad headings of:...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned has been awarded state pension (contributory) with effect from the 14 of May 2014. The decision has been made based on the current available social insurance record of the person concerned, comprising 1,404 reckonable paid and credited contributions. This results in a reduced rate pension entitlement based on a yearly average of 31 contributions covering the period...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension Eligibility (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 545 and 546 together. To qualify for a widow(er)’s or surviving civil partner’s (contributory) pension, the surviving spouse must be deemed, under Irish law, to be the legal widow(er) of the deceased. The legislative provisions pertaining to the recognition of divorces outside the State are set out in Section 5 of the Domicile and Recognition of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension Applications (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: To qualify for a widow(er)’s or surviving civil partner’s (contributory) pension, the surviving spouse must be deemed, under Irish State Law, to be the legal widower of the deceased. The person concerned was previously married in Ireland and divorced in Northern Ireland. His subsequent marriage to his late wife took place in Northern Ireland. The legislative provisions...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension Applications (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: To qualify for a widow(er)’s or surviving civil partner’s (contributory) pension, the surviving spouse must be deemed, under Irish State Law, to be the legal widow of the deceased. The late husband of the person concerned was previously married in Ireland and subsequently divorced in the United Kingdom. The legislative provisions pertaining to the recognition of divorces...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an oral hearing of the appeals of the person concerned took place on 7thDecember 2017. At the oral hearing it was agreed that the person concerned would send in further documentation in support of the appeals and this has been reiterated in subsequent communications between the Appeals Officer and the person concerned. To date, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned submitted an application for Supplementary Welfare Allowance to assist with funeral expenses on the 13th of February 2018. A decision to award the claim was made by the designated person on the 13th of February 2018 and a payment was issued to the person concerned in the amount of €2,500 that day. I hope this clarifies the matter for the deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (20 Feb 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. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 31 July 2017. It is a condition for receipt of CA that the applicant’s...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Data (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The six rates bands came into existence at the start of September 2012 for persons with a date of birth after 31stof August 1946. At the end of January 2018 there were 395,091 people in receipt of state pension (contributory) in total and of these 153,355 were in receipt of payment based on the six rate bands from September 2012. The number of claimants in each of these rate bands is: ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Pensions reform is a Government priority and I can confirm an intention to publish and commence the implementation of a pensions reform plan in the coming weeks. This reform plan will detail measures to reform both our State and supplementary pension systems. Perhaps the two most fundamental reform measures contained within this plan will relate to the introduction of the ‘Total...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Appeals (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an oral hearing of the appeal of the person concerned took place on 3rdJanuary 2018. At the oral hearing it was agreed that the person concerned would send in further documentation in support of their appeal. This documentation has been received and the Appeals Officer is now considering the appeal in the light of all of the evidence...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned has previously had their entitlement to state pension (contributory) examined. According to the records of my Department, the person concerned has a social insurance record of 1,133 reckonable paid and credited contributions, from 1965 to 2014 giving them a yearly average of 28. In arriving at this yearly average, disregards for homemaking periods were applied. This...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that two appeals by the person concerned were registered in that office on 23rdNovember and 5thDecember 2017 respectively. 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,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Occupational Injuries Benefit Applications (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Injury Benefit is a weekly payment in respect of incapacity for work due to an accident arising out of and in the course of employment. For the purpose of the scheme, an accident while on an unbroken journey between one’s normal place of residence and one’s place of employment, is regarded as an accident at work. Benefit can be paid for up to 26 weeks from the date of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Payments (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: An agency arrangement has been in place, at the request of the person concerned, since 5 December 2008. Details of any concerns arising from the pension payment arrangements of the person concerned should be submitted in writing directly to State pension (contributory), Department of Employment Affair and Social Protection, College Road, Sligo F91 T384. I hope this clarifies the matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The free television licence is received as part of the household benefits package (HHB) which also comprises the electricity or gas allowance. The package is generally available to people living in the State, aged 66 years or over who are in receipt of a social welfare type payment or who satisfy a means test. The package is also available to carers and people with disabilities under the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Properties (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: There are no vacant residential dwelling units under the remit of my Department or that of the statutory bodies operating under the aegis of my Department.