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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: A Designated Person has requested outstanding information in relation to the claim of the person in question. On receipt of the information requested a decision will be made as soon as possible and the person in question will be notified of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons (including lone parents, recovering drug misusers and persons with a disability) with an opportunity to engage in part-time work and training within their communities on a temporary, fixed-term basis. With respect to the participants...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: Invalidity pension (IP) is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work because of illness or incapacity and who satisfy the pay related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions. To qualify for IP a claimant must, inter alia, have at least 260 (5 years) paid PRSI contributions since entering social insurance and 48 contributions paid or credited in the last complete...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: The final phase of reforms to the one-parent family payment (OFP) scheme introduced in July of this year now means that eligibility for the payment ceases when a parent’s youngest child turns seven years of age. When a lone parent’s youngest child turns seven, should they have an income need they can transfer to the jobseeker’s transitional payment. This payment...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Poverty Data (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: The CSO Survey on Income and living Conditions for 2013 shows that 11.7 per cent of children, or 138,000 children, were in consistent poverty, a slight but not statistically significant increase on the 2012 rate. The Survey also found that the at-risk-of-poverty for children decreased from 18.8 per cent in 2012 to 17.9 per cent in 2013. A key driver in reducing income poverty among children...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: In response to her application for an increased rent limit, the person concerned was written to on 21stAugust 2015 and again on 10thSeptember 2015 and asked to provide further details. In particular, she was asked for a letter from a Public Representative or homeless agency to support her claim for the increased rent limit and to provide evidence from the Revenue commissioners that she does...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received from the person concerned on the 8th July 2015. This application has been forwarded to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors for their medical opinion. Following receipt of this opinion, a decision will be made by a Deciding Officer and notified to the person concerned. It can currently take 12 weeks to process an...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: In order to qualify for a jobseeker’s payment, a person must satisfy certain conditions including being available for and genuinely seeking work. A person who engages in voluntary work may continue to be entitled to jobseekers payments provided that, in engaging in the voluntary work, the customer continues to satisfy the statutory conditions of the scheme. The type of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: Eligibility for the Department’s treatment benefit scheme, which includes the hearing aid grant, is based on meeting specific PRSI-related criteria. To qualify, the customer must have: -paid 260 PRSI contributions at Class A, E, H, or P since first starting work; and -have 39 such contributions paid or credited in the years immediately before turning either 60 or 66 years. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: Under the new Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) responsibility for recipients of rent supplement with a long-term housing need is being transferred to local authorities. HAP is being introduced to provide a more integrated system of housing supports and has been designed to allow any households that find full-time employment to remain in the scheme. The rent supplement scheme provides...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: The Back to Education Allowance Scheme (BTEA) is designed to support second chance education. It enables eligible persons to pursue approved education courses and to continue to receive income support for the duration of a course of study, subject to meeting certain conditions. The objective of BTEA is to assist those who are distant from the labour market to acquire the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Local Employment Service (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 258 to 260, inclusive, together. Local Employment Services (LES) have been in existence since 1995 and have been contracted since 2000, initially by FAS and latterly, beginning in 2012, by the Department of Social Protection. Their purpose is to provide the same range of employment activation services that are provided by the Department’s Intreo...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: JobPath is a new approach of employment activation which will cater mainly for people who are long-term unemployed (over 12 months) and will assist them to secure and sustain full-time paid employment or self-employment. The JobPath providers will provide intensive individual support, advice and coaching to jobseekers and will also help participants to address social inclusion barriers and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned was awarded disability allowance with effect from 9 July 2014. The first payment issued on 18 June 2015 and arrears were issued to the person in question, by their chosen payment method, on 16 September 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: Invalidity pension (IP) is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work because of illness or incapacity and who satisfy the pay related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions. The department received a claim for IP for the person concerned on the 28 July 2015. The person concerned was refused IP on the grounds that the medical conditions for the scheme were not...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: The case that the Deputy refers to was initiated in 2011 in reference to participation on the JobBridge Scheme. The scheme was first introduced on 1 July 2011, with the objective of bringing unemployed jobseekers on the Live Register closer to the labour market by providing them with the opportunity to develop new skills as well as enhancing existing ones, through the provision of a quality...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: It is assumed that the Deputy is referring to certain PRSI issues which have been raised by the Social Welfare Branch Managers Association. The Department has met with representatives of the Association on this matter and is currently in ongoing contact in relation to the issues involved.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned was refused carers allowance on the grounds that the disability of the care recipient was not such there was a requirement for full-time care and attention as prescribed in regulations and that the carer was not providing full-time care and attention as required. The person in question was notified on 19 February 2014 of this decision, the reason for it and of her right...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: In the answer to the Deputy’s previous question on this matter (Ref: 29971-15), it was stated that further notification was sent to the person concerned on 13thJuly 2015 reminding her that the outstanding documentation which had been requested needed to be submitted before her application could be processed. On 24thJuly 2015 the person concerned submitted documentation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned applied to the Community Welfare Service (CWS) of the Department of Social Protection in March 2015 for Rent Supplement. This application was refused on the grounds that the property was not deemed fit for purpose and the claimant was not established as residing there. A letter outlining the decision issued to the claimant on 11th May 2015. The claimant was afforded the...