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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ukraine War (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Government has approved a monthly flat rate recognition payment of €400 per property in respect of individual properties (shared or vacant) to those who provide accommodation for people fleeing the war in Ukraine. My Department will administer the payment on behalf of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. The recognition payment will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Programme for Government - Our Shared Future, contains a number of actions with respect to gender recognition. My Department is engaged in progressing these actions. This work is ongoing across Government Departments and public bodies on evaluating the impact of changes required to ensure recognition of non-binary people. To this end, all Departments and public bodies have been asked to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Programme for Government, Our Shared Future, contains a number of commitments with respect to gender recognition.    These follow recommendations contained in the Report of the Review Group for the Gender Recognition Act, which was completed in July 2018. The previous Government signaled its intention to legislate to give effect to this recommendation of the Review Group with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is a statutory independent body as set out in the Comhairle Act 2010 which operates under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection. CIB provides funding to 22 companies in order to deliver services on its behalf. This includes eight CIS companies that operate a national network of Citizens Information Centres, including South Munster CIS, which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The state pension non-contributory claim of the person concerned was reviewed on 8 June 2022. The person was awarded pension with effect from 4 February 2022, the Friday immediately following their 66th birthday.  A notification issued to the person concerned, advising them of the decision and confirming that a specified arrears amount would issue shortly. The arrears balance comprises...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person is not under any obligation to provide employment or employer details to the JobPath provider but, if they wish to do so and avail of the in-employment support offered, all information will be treated confidentially. It is not necessarily the case that the Department holds employment history of all individuals who are referred to the JobPath service.  JobPath providers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Turas Nua is contracted by my Department to provide support and assistance to jobseekers seeking full time employment. This support is delivered through one to one intensive engagement with a case worker who will assist the jobseeker to identify and overcome barriers to employment. There is no barrier placed by Turas Nua or any other activation service of my Department on  what...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Currently the average time to decide an One Parent Family application by my Department is two weeks and there is no backlog of OFP claims. In general once a claim is received it is reviewed by a Deciding Officer within 72 hours. The time taken for a claim to be decided will vary depending on the individual case, as the officer may need to request more information from the customer before...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The social protection system includes a variety of social assistance payments with different rules in relation to means testing, reflecting the different contingencies under which payments are made.  The means assessment reflects the fact that there is an expectation that people with reasonable amounts of income or capital are in a position to use these resources to support themselves so...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that my department received an application for disability allowance (DA) from this person on 26 May 2022.  On 16 June 2022 the person concerned was requested to supply supporting documentation required by the deciding officer in order to make a decision on their eligibility.  On receipt of this information a decision will be made on their DA application and the person...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned will reach pension age on 01 July 2022. Their application for State pension (contributory) was received on 07 June 2022. According to the records of my Department, the person concerned has a total of 520 qualifying paid social insurance contributions from their date of entry into insurable employment 01/01/2012 to December 2021. This gives an entitlement to the maximum...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is the statutory body with responsibility for the Citizens Information Service (CIS).  CIB provides funding to eight CIS companies that operate a national network of Citizens Information Centres.  Each CIS is a limited company overseen by a board of directors and makes decisions independently on the delivery of services in their regions. South...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is a statutory independent body as set out in the Comhairle Act 2010, which operates under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection. CIB provides funding to 22 companies in order to deliver services on its behalf. This includes eight CIS companies that operate a national network of Citizens Information Centres, including South Munster CIS, which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Education Schemes (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) provides income support for jobseekers and others in receipt of certain social welfare payments who pursue courses of education at second or third level.  The provision for the scheme for 2022 is €105.4 million.  The Rent Supplement scheme provides short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Circulars (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I  can confirm that my Department and agencies/bodies under the aegis of my Department continue to have dedicated contacts in place for members of the Houses of the Oireachtas. The Deputy will be aware that my Department provides members of the Oireachtas with a list of dedicated e-mail addresses for the various scheme areas in order to facilitate a rapid response...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. In order to qualify for WFP, an applicant must have a qualified child and be engaged in full-time paid employment as an employee for not less than 38 hours per fortnight. A Working Family Payment application for the person concerned was received on 25...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a suite of income supports for those who are unable to work due to an illness or disability.  It is important to note that entitlement to these supports is generally not contingent on the nature of the illness or disability but on the extent to which a particular illness or disability impairs or restricts a person’s capacity to work.  As the Deputy is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Turas Nua is one of two companies under the JobPath contracts to provide, as part of the State's Public Employment Service, employment assistance and advice to the long-term unemployed in order to assist them secure full-time paid employment. Externally contracted employment services have formed part of my Department's service provision since these services transferred from...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: All persons in receipt of a jobseeker payment must be available for and genuinely seek work, and must engage with the activation process. Labour Market activation policies are designed to give jobseekers a better chance of finding employment. Activation is the process of selection and referral of a person in receipt of a jobseeker payment to a compulsory engagement and case management...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I confirm that my Department received an application for disability allowance (DA) from the above named person on 27 September 2021.  She was awarded disability allowance with effect from 29 September 2021. The person concerned sent requests to the DA section in November 2021 for her claim to be backdated to 13 March 2020. The requests were considered by a deciding officer (DO). Having...