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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table: Social Insurance Fund (SIF) Employers PRSI Income from 2010 to 2014* (€,000) Year Total Yield 2010 €5,000,275 2011 €5,460,786 2012 €4,995,971 2013 €5,331,152 2014** €5,748,207*The total represents PRSI receipts only and is exclusive of Health and Training Levies....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table: Social Insurance Fund (SIF) Employees PRSI Income from 2010 to 2014*(€,000 Year Total Yield 2010 €1,377,140 2011 €1,617,352 2012 €1,479,983 2013 €1,579,545 2014* €1,703,657*Please note that 2014 is provisional pending completion of SIF Account and statutory audit.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Priorities (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The Government published a Statement of Government Priorities forthe period 2014 to 2016 last July. The statement sets out how we will build a social recovery to accompany the economic recovery that is now under way. The key priorities in that statement are: 1. Strengthening the Domestic Economy & Prioritising New Jobs for the Unemployed 2. Delivering Better Living and Working...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Expenditure (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The fuel allowance is a payment of €20 per week for 26 weeks from October to April, to approx. 415,000 low income households, at an estimated cost of €208 million in 2015. It is a means tested payment, targeted at those who are more vulnerable to energy poverty, including those reliant on social protection payments for longer periods and who are unlikely to have additional...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: Disability allowance arrears will issue to the person in question in the next few days.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The Deputy will be aware that I commissioned two reports relating to the Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) scheme during 2012. One of these reports dealt specifically with the relationship between DCA and Disability Allowance (DA) for young adults. A recommendation to extend the age limit for receipt of DCA to 18 years of age was included in both of these reports, which were published in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 58 and 59 together. Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is paid in respect of children who have a severe disability requiring constant care and attention substantially in excess of that needed by a child of the same age without the disability. The need for the additional care and attention must be likely to last for at least 12 months. DCA, which is not...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Data (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: In the period from January 2014 to December 2014, 965 persons that previously received domiciliary care allowance (DCA) were awarded disability allowance (DA) and 272 former DCA recipients were found not eligible for DA.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned is in receipt of Invalidity Pension (IP), including a Living Alone Allowance, at the maximum weekly personal rate. He is also in receipt of a Disablement Pension. The National Fuel Scheme (FA) may be paid to persons in receipt of certain long term Social Welfare payments, including IP, who satisfy the other qualifying criteria. Full details of the qualifying criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 63, 65, 69 and 111 to 115, inclusive, together. Based on 2014 numbers of 1,232,535 recipients, payment of a Christmas Bonus equivalent to 50%, 75% and 100% of payment levels would cost €130.2 million, €195.3 million and €260.4 million respectively. Based on these same recipient numbers, the cost of a €5 increase in the annual...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The one-parent family payment scheme income disregard was last reduced, from €110 per week to €90 per week, in January, 2014. On foot of the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act, 2014, the OFP scheme income disregard is being maintained at €90 per week. This benefitted approximately 28,000 working one-parent family payment recipients in 2015. The further reductions to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: Carer's benefit – based on the claimant fulfilling certain social insurance contribution conditions- provides an income support for insured people who have left the workforce and who are looking after certain people in need of full-time care and attention. Unlike the means-tested carers allowance, carers’ benefit (which can be paid for separate periods for a maximum of 2...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The overall concern of Government in its Budgets has been to protect the primary social welfare rates. Expenditure on pensions at approx. €6.675 billion is the largest block of expenditure in the Department in the Estimate for 2015, representing approx. 34.4% of overall expenditure. Because of demographic changes, the Department’s spending on older people is increasing year on...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department was notified by the Social Welfare Appeals Office on the 26 June 2015 that the appeal by the person in question in relation to their medical suitability for disability allowance (DA) has been successful. Her case is currently assigned to a deciding officer to implement the appeals officer’s decision and the person concerned will be notified in writing of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: Social welfare legislation states that a person is not entitled to jobseeker’s allowance while attending a course of study. It also provides that a person shall be regarded as attending a course of study:- · for 3 months immediately following the completion or the leaving by that person of second level education or the completion by him or her of the leaving certificate...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on 18 June 2015. The application is currently being processed and once completed, the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: Maternity Benefit is a payment made for 26 weeks to employed and self-employed pregnant women who satisfy certain PRSI contribution conditions on their own insurance record, in order to obviate the need for them to work pre and post-delivery of their baby. The original scheme was introduced in 1970 and was extended to include self-employed mothers with effect from June 1997. This year it is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 15 April 2015. The application is currently being processed and once completed, the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned appealed against the refusal of their application for carer’s allowance (CA). The department was notified on 9 July 2015 by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that the appeal was successful. The positive outcome of the applicant appeals is not being processed by the department. The person concerns will be contacted directly shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 17thJune 2015, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and...