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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Household Benefits Package (HHB) comprises the electricity or gas allowance, and the free television licence. My Department will spend approximately €273 million this year on HHB. The package is generally available to people living in the State aged 66 years or over who are in receipt of a social welfare type payment or who satisfy a means test. The package is also available to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, my Department can make additional needs payments to help meet expenses that a person cannot pay from their weekly income. It provides supports and services to help support people on low incomes and facing financial hardship. The additional needs payment is an overarching term for exceptional and urgent needs payments, and certain supplements...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Claimants with cohabiting partners are recognised within the social welfare system as having additional needs in cases where their cohabiting partner is financially dependent upon them. The payment of an Increase for a Qualified Adult (IQA) in addition to the personal rate of payment reflects these additional household needs. The IQA is payable in respect of a person who is wholly or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The estimated costs of increasing all weekly social welfare payments by €10 or €20 per week are shown in the table below; - €m €m Payment €10 Increase €20 Increase Social Insurance Schemes State Pension (Contributory) ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The estimated full year additional cost of increasing each weekly social welfare payment by 10% is shown in the table below. Payment Age Personal Rate Qualified Adult Total Social Insurance Schemes €m €m €m State Pension (Contributory) 569.6 74.2 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The estimated cost of extending Child Benefit to 18-year olds in secondary school is €61.5m. This costing is based on the estimated school enrolment numbers and is subject to change in light of emerging trends and subsequent revisions. Any extension of Child Benefit would need to be considered in an overall budgetary and policy context.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The estimated cost of providing a one-off double monthly payment of Child Benefit in September 2022 is €170.4m. The estimated cost of increasing Child Benefit payment by €10 per month is €146.3m in a full year (2023). These costings are subject to change in light of emerging trends and subsequent revision of the estimated number of recipients.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The following table provides the estimated cost of providing a double payment for each weekly paid scheme in the first week of September 2022 on the same basis as the Christmas bonus is calculated. The total cost of such a payment is estimated at €313 million.This is in addition to the normal weekly payment for people getting these payments. Scheme Cost...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The estimated cost of increasing the qualified child payment for under 12's by €5 is €52.2m, and by €7 is €73.1m. The estimated cost of increasing the qualified child payment for over 12's by €10 is €58.0m, and by €12 is €69.6m. The current estimated number of children in the under 12 age category is 234,250, and the current number of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (13 Jul 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 1,034,000...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 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 the end of September each year. The allowance is payable in respect of eligible children between the ages of 4 and 17 in respect of whom a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, my Department can make additional needs payments to help meet expenses that a person cannot pay from their weekly income. This is an overarching term used to refer to exceptional and urgent needs payments, and certain supplements to assist with ongoing or recurring costs that cannot be met from the client’s own resources and are deemed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Jobseeker's Benefit (JB) and Jobseeker's Benefit (Self-employed) (JBSE) are social insurance schemes whereby entitlement is dependent on a person's PRSI contribution record. There are a number of statutory conditions applied under the schemes including that a person has experienced a loss of employment and is genuinely seeking to increase their employment. Unless a person can satisfy all of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The below table shows the estimated cost of increasing the State Pension (Contributory) and State Pension (Non-Contributory) by €10, €20, €30, €40 and €50. - €10 Increase €20 Increase €30 Increase €40 Increase €50 Increase Scheme €m ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks at an estimated cost of €366 million in 2022. It is a targeted payment to people dependent on specified long-term social welfare payments. The purpose of this payment is to assist those households most in need with their energy costs. Considering the fact that the Fuel Allowance is a household-based payment and that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each fuel season) from late September to April, at an estimated cost of €366 million in 2022. The purpose of this payment is to assist qualifying households with their energy costs. Fuel Allowance is a household payment and the circumstances and income of any other member of the household...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Indecon Cost of Disability report identified that additional costs of disability is a wider issue than income supports and runs across a number of areas of expenditure. These include housing, equipment, aids and appliances, care and assistance services, mobility, transport, communications, medicines, and additional living expenses. Indecon also identified that there is not a single...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 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, at an estimated cost of €366 million in 2022. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. The qualifying criteria for the Fuel Allowance scheme are outlined in detailed guidelines that are available to all staff...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 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 in 2022. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. Qualifying payments for Fuel Allowance are those payments that are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (13 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Public Appointments Service is the centralised and principal provider of recruitment, assessment and selection services across the Civil and Public Service. It provides an open and transparent recruitment process to identify candidates for civil sector roles, with merit-based selection. My Department also has a recruitment license, used mainly for specialist competitions and the...