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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Prison Service (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: As the Deputy will be aware, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform determines central public service pensions policy. The Department of Social Protection has responsibility for the Jobseeker's Benefit and Jobseeker's Allowance schemes which provide income support for people who become fully or partly unemployed. These statutory schemes allow individuals to work up to 3 days a week...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Department of Social Protection has no contracts with Top Security.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Department of Social Protection has no contracts with Top Security.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Bodies (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The statutory bodies operating under the aegis of my Department are the Citizens Information Board, the Pensions Authority, the Pensions Council and the Social Welfare Tribunal. The details, as requested by the Deputy, are set out below: Citizens Information Board The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is the national agency responsible for supporting the provision of information, advice and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Fuel allowance is a means-tested payment to assist householders on long-term social welfare payments towards the cost of their heating needs. The main eligibility conditions that apply to the fuel allowance scheme are that a person must be in receipt of a qualifying payment, must satisfy a means test and must either be living alone or with other qualifying persons. The current threshold for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 80 private transport operators. There are approximately 1,043,000...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The autumn Cost of Living double payment is part of a range of measures put in place as part of Budget 2023 to mitigate the effects of the increased cost of living. The autumn Cost of Living double payment will be paid to recipients of Disability Allowance, Invalidity Pension, Blind Pension, Disablement Benefit and Partial Capacity Benefit. Qualifying payments for the autumn double payment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (6 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, which is supporting over 370,000 households in 2022, at an estimated cost of €366 million. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (6 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, which is supporting over 370,000 households in 2022, at an estimated cost of €366 million. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 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: State Pensions (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned reached pension age on 30 July 2012 and applied for State Pension (contributory) on 28 March 2012. According to the records of my Department, the person concerned has a total of 1697 paid and credited social insurance contributions, giving a yearly average of 34. This gives entitlement to a current weekly rate of €248.30 which is 98% of the maximum rate of State...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (6 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, which is supporting over 370,000 households in 2022, at an estimated cost of €366 million. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance scheme provides a once-off payment to eligible families to assist with the costs of clothing and footwear when children start or return to school each autumn. The scheme operates from June to September each year. In order to qualify for Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance, an applicant must satisfy a number of qualifying...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Partial Capacity Benefit (PCB) is a social welfare scheme which allows a person to return to work or self-employment and continue to receive a payment from my department. A person must be in receipt of Illness Benefit (IB) for a minimum of six months or Invalidity Pension (IP) in order to apply for PCB. My Department will determine whether the applicant is eligible and (if so) at what level...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a monthly payment made to families with children in respect of all qualified children up to the age of 16 years. The payment continues to be paid in respect of children until their 18th birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. Child Benefit is currently paid to over 631,000 families in respect of almost 1.2 million children with an estimated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned submitted their application on the 20th of September 2022. On the 29thof September the Deciding Officer requested further information be submitted. The information requested was in relation to their partner's self-employment and a declaration relating to their own casual, part time or short time work, This information was asked to be returned before the 14th of October....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: My Department is fully committed to ensuring that members of the general public are fully aware of the welfare supports and to ensure key changes are communicated to them. The Department offers a range of services for vulnerable groups, including supporting people as they get older. We use a range of channels to make sure that information on these services reaches all of these groups....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: As part of a means review into his continued entitlement to disability allowance (DA), the person concerned was notified on 9 December 2021, that their entitlement to DA will cease effective from 14 December 2021. Based on the information provided by this person, his current means are in excess of the statutory limit for DA under section 210 and 302(b) of the 2005 Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Recipients of the State Pension (Contributory) can claim an increase in their pension in respect of a Qualified Adult, subject to a means assessment. A Qualified Adult is the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of the pensioner who is being wholly or mainly maintained by that pensioner. The means assessment reflects the fact that there is an expectation that people with reasonable amounts of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (6 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is a statutory agency tasked with providing information, advocacy and advice to citizens. These important services are delivered by eight independent regional Citizen Information Service (CIS) companies. CIB provides funding to eight CIS companies that operate a national network of Citizens Information Centres. It is important to note the independent...