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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a contribution towards the energy costs of a household.  The payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) is paid from late September to April.  One of the conditions for receipt of fuel allowance is that a person must satisfy a means test.  In respect of the 2022/2023 fuel season, an application for Fuel Allowance has not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) from late September to April, at an estimated cost of €366 million in 2022.  The allowance represents a contribution towards the energy costs of a household.  Only one allowance is paid per household. It is incorrect to say that those on Community Employment schemes are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) from late September to April, at an estimated cost of €366 million in 2022.  The allowance represents a contribution towards the energy costs of a household.  Only one allowance is paid per household. If a participant on a Community Employment (CE) scheme was in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person referred to has been awarded invalidity pension and fuel allowance with effect from 04 August 2022.  Payment will issue to his nominated bank account on 27 October 2022.  Any arrears due from 04 August 2022 to 26 October 2022 (less any overlapping social welfare payment) will issue in due course.  The person in question was notified of this decision on 14 October...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Oct 2022)

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. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 13 November 2020. It is a condition for receipt of a CA...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (19 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Please find below a schedule detailing PSC services in these post codes: Post Code Intreo Centre Name Appointment or Walk-in Dublin 1 & 3 Parnell Street Walk-in Dublin 5 Coolock and Kilbarrack Walk-in Dublin 7 Parnell Street and Blanchardstown  Walk-in ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a contribution towards the energy costs of a household.  The payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) is paid from late September to April.  One of the conditions for receipt of fuel allowance is that a person must satisfy a means test.  In respect of the 2022/2023 fuel season, an application for Fuel Allowance has not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Assisted Decision-Making (19 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The statistical breakdown the Deputy has requested is not readily available. The information is currently being compiled and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy in the requested format, when finalised. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Assisted Decision-Making (19 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The provisions and procedures governing agent arrangement, as set out in social welfare legislation, will remain valid following the full commencement of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (as amended). My officials are engaging with their counterparts in the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Decisions Support Service in relation to any...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: All claims for illness benefit must be accompanied by a Certificate of Incapacity for Work from a GP.  This specifies the nature of the illness and the duration of the incapacity for work.  The use of HSE texts as an acceptable form of medical evidence to support claims for Enhanced Illness Benefit was introduced at the start of the pandemic as an...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (19 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Rural Economic Development Zones (REDZ) are functional, rather than administrative, geographic areas that reflect the spatial patterns of local economic activity and development. They are, in effect, sub-county zones within which most people live and work. The central objective of the REDZ model was to stimulate economic activity at a local level by strengthening collaborative development...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: As part of Budget 2023, the Social Protection budget has been designed to assist people with Cost-of- Living increases through a mix of lump sum payments, increases to weekly payment rates and an expansion of the fuel allowance scheme. The measures introduced include the provision of a one-off €500 Cost-of-Living lump sum payment, which will be paid in November 2022 to recipients of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) from late September to April, at an estimated cost of €366 million in 2022. 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 household.Only one allowance is paid per household. In...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (18 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The accommodation needs of victims of domestic violence are met through a joined-up service delivery model provided by Tusla with the close involvement of the various housing authorities nationwide. Access to Rent Supplement can be provided on referral by Tusla or by prescribed Tusla funded service providers. This provides victims of domestic violence with a fast-track approval and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (18 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The accommodation needs of victims of domestic violence are met through a joined-up service delivery model provided by Tusla with the close involvement of the various housing authorities nationwide. Access to Rent Supplement can be provided on referral by Tusla or by prescribed Tusla funded service providers. This provides victims of domestic violence with a fast track approval and screening...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2022)

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. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: 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 that a disease or injury shall be prescribed for the purposes of this section in relation to any insured persons, where the Minister is satisfied that— (a) it ought to be treated,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2022)

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. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, has decided to disallow the appeal of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Noting that the figure may be influenced by the factors previously mentioned in Parliamentary Question No. 397 of 20 September 2022, the average duration of payment for current recipients of Carer's Allowance is 85 months. The average duration on the scheme is affected by the Department retaining the first claim date for Carer's Allowance in the system. If an individual reapplies and their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (18 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Civil and public sector employees, recruited prior to 6 April 1995, pay social insurance contributions at modified rates under classes B, C and D. Amongst the class B contributors are permanent and pensionable civil servants and Gardaí, the class C contributors are commissioned army officers and members of the army nursing service and the class D contributors include permanent and...