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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. To qualify, the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions; employment conditions; show that they are providing full-time care and attention; and must show that the care recipient requires full-time care and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (5 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. An application for invalidity pension by the person concerned was disallowed by a Deciding Officer of the Department on 9 May 2022. I am informed by the Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: In response to the ongoing cost of living pressures, I have secured a package of €2.2 billion for Social Protection measures as part of Budget 2023. This represents the largest Budget package for the Department of Social Protection in the history of the State and will help to support our pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, lone parents and families during this difficult...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Guardian's payment is paid to approximately 1,800 recipients, in respect of almost 2,200 children. Guardian's payment, at the current weekly rate of €191 per child, is the highest rate of weekly child income support paid by my Department. As a result of the measures announced in budget 2023, the rate of Guardian's payment will increase by €12 to €203 per week per child,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: In response to the ongoing cost of living pressures, I have secured a package of €2.2 billion for Social Protection measures as part of Budget 2023. This represents the largest Budget package for the Department of Social Protection in the history of the State and will help to support our pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, lone parents and families during this difficult...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 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: Community Employment Schemes (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: In response to the ongoing cost of living pressures, my Department will spend approximately €1.2 billion in one-off measures during the coming months to help individuals and families through this difficult period. The €500 lump sum payment to those on Disability Allowance, Blind Pension and Invalidity Pension will be paid only to those receiving these payments in the relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: On Budget Day, I was pleased to announce a €12 increase in weekly payments. This increase will also apply to Community Employment, Rural Social Scheme and Tús scheme participants. In addition, I am increasing the top-up rate on these employment schemes by €5 per week. This means that, combined with the rate increase, participants on these schemes will see a rise of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Invalidity pension (IP) is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work because of illness or incapacity and for no other reason and who satisfy the pay related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions. A claim for IP was received from the person concerned on 15 September 2022. In order to establish medical suitability two forms were sent to him on 30 September 2022.The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: My Department's Additional Needs Payment is available to support people when they face essential expenses that they are unable to meet from their income regardless of their employment situation or hours of work and each case is assessed on its merits taking account of the person’s income and expenses. So far this year to the end of September 2022 66,000 Additional Needs Payments have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The following schedule details the number of Community Welfare Officers (CWOs) in each county: County Number of CWOs Full-time Equivalent Carlow 3 3 Cavan 3 2.8 Clare 9 8.8 Cork 40 37.5 Donegal 12 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 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: Citizens Information Services (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is the statutory body with responsibility for the Citizens Information Service (CIS) under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection (DSP). CIB provides funding to eight CIS companies that operate a national network of Citizens Information Centres. It is very important to note that, by law, the CIB is charged with independently overseeing the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Transport (5 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 Payments (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The number of applications for Additional Needs Payments increased significantly following two major advertising and communications campaign by my Department to promote the scheme this year. The trend in the number of applications paid from January – August 2022 and during the same period in 2021 is as follows: Additional Needs Payments (excl. supplements) paid from Jan - Aug 2021 and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is a monthly payment in respect of a child, aged under 16 with a severe disability who requires continual or continuous care and attention substantially over and above the care and attention normally required by a child of the same age and the child must be likely to require this level of care and attention for at least 12 consecutive months. An application...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned applied for Jobseekers Benefit on the 26th of September 2022. The statutory conditions for Jobseekers Benefit state that a person must be capable of work, must be available for full time employment and must be genuinely seeking work. The person concerned was issued with a request for further information in relation to these conditions on the 27th of September 2022 and as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 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: Departmental Communications (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: An increase for qualified adult (IQA) is a means-tested payment, payable to a claimant whose spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is being wholly or mainly maintained by them, and where that qualified adult’s personal means from any source does not exceed a means test income limit. Where a qualified adult has weekly means of less than €100, the maximum rate of IQA is payable....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (5 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The autumn Cost of Living double payment and the once-off €500 Cost of Living Disability Support Grant are 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...