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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (19 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: In order 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 subsequently divorced in Northern Ireland. Where a divorce has been granted in another jurisdiction, including Northern Ireland,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (19 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The application for fuel allowance of the person concerned has been reviewed on 18 October 2017. It has now been determined that the applicant is residing with a qualified person. As fuel allowance is a means-tested payment, the applicant has been requested to complete and return a means assessment form, with supporting documentation. On receipt, a decision will be made on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (19 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: In order to have a person’s entitlement to state pension (contributory) or widow(er)’s or surviving civil partner’s (contributory) pension examined, a completed application form must be submitted to my Department. Both pension application forms have been posted to the person concerned. Application forms are also available to download from the Department’s website...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (19 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: In assessing means for social assistance payments including jobseeker’s allowance, account is taken of the value of capital and property belonging to the person and their spouse or partner. Capital includes moneys on hands or deposited in financial institutions while property includes the value of other assets such as bonds and equities as well as houses and other premises. Property...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (19 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: There is no statutory retirement age in the State, and the age at which employees retire is a matter for the contract of employment between them and their employers. The Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011 provides that State pension age will be increased gradually to 68 years. This began in January 2014 with the standardising of State pension age for all at 66 years and the cessation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (19 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 8 August 2017. 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, the case in question will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility (19 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: No application for an Exceptional Needs Payment (ENP) has been received from the person concerned. An application form for Supplementary Welfare Allowance, together with a request for supporting documentation and the contact details of the department’s Community Welfare Service has been sent to the person concerned. Once a completed application for Supplementary Welfare Allowance has...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (19 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is in receipt of a reduced rate state pension (contributory) based on an assessed yearly average of 19 contributions, covering the period July 1962 to December 2010. According to the records of my Department, the person concerned has no recorded contributions during the period 1967 to 1997. The person concerned has been requested on a number of occasions to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (19 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: It is the employer’s responsibility to pay statutory redundancy and other wage related entitlements to all eligible employees. In the event that an employer is unable to pay these entitlements due to financial difficulties, the Department can step in to make a payment from the Social Insurance Fund, as part of the redundancy and insolvency payments schemes. When a payment is made...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Costs (19 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: Illness benefit is a short term social insurance payment made to insured people who are unable to work due to illness. Normally payment of illness benefit begins from the seventh day of the illness; no payment is made for the first six days. These are known as “waiting days”. Waiting days have been a long standing feature of social insurance schemes and are a feature of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (19 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: An officer of the Department conducted an interview with the homeowner of the address stated above. The homeowner confirmed that the person concerned does not reside at this address. A report has been forwarded to the deciding officer for decision and the person concerned will be advised of the outcome in due course. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (19 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is in receipt of a reduced rate state pension (contributory) based on an assessed yearly average of 35 contributions, covering the period from July 1970 to December 2016. The person concerned has a social insurance record of 1,625 reckonable contributions and credits. There are gaps in their insurance record for the years 1978 to 1989, from 1990 to 1992, and for the year...

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: That is not true.

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: I move amendment No. 3:To delete all the words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:notes that: - our pensioners are the backbone of our society. They are the people who built this country in the years before the economic expansion we have enjoyed in recent years. They endured the hardships of a stagnant economy in the 1960s through to the 1980s, yet...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (18 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The increase of €2 in the payment for qualified children (IQC), which most weekly social welfare payments can include, represents an increase of 6.7% in this payment, and will bring the estimated cost of this child-related element of the welfare budget to in the region of €579 million in 2017. This budgetary measure specifically targeted children in low-income families, and as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Work Family Dividend Scheme (18 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: In order to be eligible for the BTWFD a customer must be aged under 66, must be resident and employed (the employment or self-employment can commence up to four weeks of the claim/scheme ending) in the State, and have been in receipt of an IQC (or equivalent) while in receipt of one of the following payments: 1. Jobseeker’s Benefit (JB) or Jobseeker’s Allowance (JA) for at...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (18 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 28 August 2017. 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, the case in question will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund (18 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Social Insurance Fund (SIF) was established by the Social Welfare Act 1952 (as amended). The SIF operates under the terms of the Social Welfare (Consolidation Act) 2005. Under section 9 of that Act the SIF comprises a current account managed by the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and an investment account managed by the Minister for Finance. The income of the SIF...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (18 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The following table provides the number of persons under 26 years of age in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance, jobseeker’s benefit and credits with a duration greater than 1 year at end of September 2017. Age Jobseeker's Allowance Jobseeker's Benefit Credits Only 18 19 906 20 1,379 3 21 1,439 2 22 1,544 3 5 23 1,578 5 9 24 1,661 5 13 25...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (18 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: I regret that this information is not readily available at this time, as the requested statistics are not routinely compiled by my Department.