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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (12 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. The department informs me that there is no application by the person concerned for CA registered. If the person in question wishes to make an application, she should complete and return...

Seanad: Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: I ask the Senator to withdraw both of her amendments for two different reasons. One is because there is already a report so I do not need an amendment to the legislation to provide what we have done already during the deliberations and preparations for budget 2020. I would be very happy to share it with the Senator today or in the next couple of days. It helps explain the reason for the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (11 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. I confirm that my department received an application for CA from the person concerned on 31 May 2019. The application...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 31 October 2019. The application is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. The application in question was referred to a local social welfare inspector (SWI) on 31 October 2019 to confirm that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. The Social Welfare Appeals Office is still awaiting a response from the carer's allowance section of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and has contacted that section again in the matter. When these papers have been received from the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Waiting Times (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The information requested by the Deputy is detailed in the attached tabular statement. Average time to award Carer Allowance claims in each of the months January to October 2019. Month Average time to award (weeks) January 16 February 15 March 13 April 12 May ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. The person concerned is in receipt of CA for one care recipient since 24 October 2016. My department received an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. The person concerned is in receipt of CA for one care recipient since 2 March 2017. My department received an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. The application was referred to a local social welfare inspector (SWI) on 17 October 2019 and follow up contact was made...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Government is committed to enhancing the position of the self-employed through improving the level of PRSI based benefits available to self-employed people and through a supportive tax regime. Self-employed persons are liable for PRSI at the Class S rate of 4% which covers them for access to long-term benefits such as State pension (contributory), widow's, widower's or surviving...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...2019. The figure for full time equivalents (FTE) takes account of staff that avail of work-share options. Temporary Clerical Officers are employed to cover long term absences eg. maternity leave, carers leave, long term illness, shorter working year scheme and also to support projects such as the roll out of the Public Service Card, SWY and Total Pension Contribution project. Table 2...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a PRSI based payment, made to a person who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. It is payable for a maximum of 104 weeks for each person being cared for. To qualify the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 21 October 2019. It is a condition for receipt of a CA...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that two appeals were registered in the name of the person concerned as they had applied for carer's allowance in respect of two carees. I am also advised that the decisions of the Appeals Officer in these two cases will issue in the very near future. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. The application in question was referred to a local social welfare inspector (SWI) on 6 September 2019 and follow up contact was made with the SWI on 5 December 2019 to confirm that all...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (5 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. Additional information in relation to the person’s application was requested by a deciding officer on 3 December...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (4 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: I hope people are already seeing the benefit. For argument's sake, we have a target processing time for carer's allowance of 12 weeks and our current turnaround time is ten weeks. For disability allowance, we have a processing time of 12 weeks and our current turnaround time is ten weeks. We have a processing time of 12 weeks for domiciliary care allowance and our current turnaround time...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Allowance Applications Waiting Times (4 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...average time. It bothers me to learn from Deputy Collins that average waiting times appear to be increasing because the statistics indicate that the additional resources we have put into the carer's section are yielding results. Not long ago, I was in this Chamber apologising because at one point carer's allowance applicants were waiting 17 weeks on average. That meant the best...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (4 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...to report that since the Comptroller and Auditor General reviewed performance earlier this year, good progress has been made, particularly with the illness related schemes.  For example, the time to award a carer's allowance claim is now shorter than at any time over the past ten years.  There is still more progress to be made and the Department will continue to examine its...