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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (17 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: An increase for living alone can be claimed by a person in receipt of pension if they are living alone, or mainly alone. In this case, the person concerned is the qualified adult on their spouse’s state pension (contributory) and is therefore not eligible for this increase. A letter informing the person of this decision was issued on 21 September 2017. Similarly, Fuel Allowance can be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (17 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: Increase for a Qualified Adult on a State Pension (contributory) payment is a means tested payment. The person concerned applied for an increase for qualified adult on their state pension (contributory) on 2 August 2017. The increase was awarded with effect from 2 June 2017, as prior to that date the qualified adult was in receipt of state pension (non-contributory) in their own right at a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Family Income Supplement (17 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Working Family Payment (WFP), formerly known as Family Income Supplement, or FIS, is an in-work support which provides an income top-up for employees on low earnings. The WFP is designed to prevent in-work poverty for low paid workers with child dependants, and to offer a financial incentive to take-up employment. There are currently over 57,000 families with more than 127,000 children...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund (17 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 589 and 590 together. A debt is raised against the employer when a payment is made under the Redundancy and Insolvency Payment scheme from the Social Insurance Fund. The total employer debt to the SIF at 31 December 2016 stood at €462 million. A comprehensive analysis on the trading status of all companies and businesses with a debt to the Social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (17 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: Officials in the Department are currently working on the detailed development of the ‘Total Contribution Approach’ (TCA). It is expected that the TCA will replace the yearly average approach for new pensioners from around 2020. The aim of this approach is to make the rate of contributory pension more closely match contributions made by a person. This is a very significant...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Employment Initiative (17 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) is one of the main EU financial resources to support the implementation of the youth guarantee by providing job, education and training opportunities to young people aged 15-25 who are not in employment, education of training. YEI funding is reserved for use in those regions, including Ireland, where youth unemployment levels exceeded 25% during the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme Data (12 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 166 and 167 together. As the Deputy is aware, the rural social scheme (RSS) provides opportunities for farmers and fishermen/women who are currently in receipt of specified social welfare payments to work to provide certain services of benefit to rural communities. Communities benefit from the skills and talents of local farmers and fishermen and participants...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility (12 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The purpose of the Exceptional Needs Payment (ENP) is to assist people with once-off expenditure which is exceptional and unforeseen and cannot be met from any other source, and given the circumstances of the case, they could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their normal weekly income. According to the records of this Department, the person concerned has not recently submitted an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (12 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) is a scheme that allows persons in receipt of certain social welfare payments the opportunity to pursue a course of study, while still maintaining their income support, subject to satisfying a number of conditions. The conditions include progressing in the level of education held by the client with reference to the national framework of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (12 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: My Department offers a wide range of employment initiatives including Community Employment (CE), Tús and the Rural Social Scheme (RSS) which provide income support and activation supports catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market. As the economic recovery takes hold and the overall level of unemployment continues to fall, numbers on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Living Alone Allowance (12 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The living alone increase is an additional payment of €9 per week made to people aged 66 years or over who are in receipt of certain social welfare payments, including State pensions, and who are living alone. It is also available to people who are less than 66 years of age, living alone and in receipt of disability allowance, invalidity pension, incapacity supplement or blind pension....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (12 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: Illness benefit is a payment for persons who cannot work due to illness and who satisfy the pay related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions. For illness benefitclaims made in 2017 the governing contribution year is 2015. The rate of payment depends on the person’s level of earnings in the governing PRSI contribution year. Where the average weekly earnings are €300...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (12 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: In the case of the first person concerned, she is currently in receipt of a half rate carer’s allowance payment for the care of her daughter. She was also in receipt of a qualified adult allowance by means of a separate payment on the jobseeker’s allowance claim of her spouse. This claim is currently suspended as a number of uncollected payments expired and were returned to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (12 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 24thJuly 2017. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. These papers were received...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (12 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: Mr Ramtano’s FIS renewal claim was processed and he was awarded a supplement of €124.00 a week from 7thSeptember 2017 to 5thSeptember 2018. This payment is lodged weekly into his bank account.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (12 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: Where a child is born in the State, and the birth is registered within three months, a Personal Public Service (PPS) Number is allocated automatically.If the birth is not registered within three months, then the child should attend a PPS Number allocation centre with a parent and an application may be made there. Evidence of identity and address should be provided along with evidence as to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (12 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: Ms. Kennedy’s FIS claim is due to expire on 11thOctober 2017. A FIS renewal form was issued to Ms. Kennedy on 3rdAugust 2017 but has not yet been returned.Another FIS Renewal form issued to Ms. Kennedy today 10thOctober 2017. On receipt of the FIS Renewal form Ms. Kennedy’s entitlement to FIS will be decided.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: This is my first budget as Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection. Since June I hope I have been clear in repeating that my priorities include the 113,000 children living in consistent poverty; working families, including lone parents; and people on fixed incomes who are entirely dependent on the social contract we have in Ireland. We are very lucky that the recovery we...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: Is that not a misquote?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (11 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: An application for carer's benefit (CARB) was received from the person concerned on 31 July 2017. Additional information was requested from the person concerned on 9 October 2017 in relation to hospital admittance and discharge dates. Once the information is received the application will be processed without delay and she will be notified directly of the outcome. In the meantime, the person...