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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy is not available in my Department. However I am informed during the week ended 22 May there were a total of 65,095 payments made to weekly recipients of back to work allowance, one-parent family payment, jobseeker’s allowance and jobseeker’s benefit which exceeded €256. These payments were made to the recipients solely in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: Under the Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 employers are liable for payment of bank holidays if the employee has worked at least 40 hours in the last 5 weeks before a bank holiday. Part-time employees are not entitled to jobseeker's benefit or allowance in respect of bank holidays where the employer has liability for payment. The Department only pays a customer for a bank holiday if...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Data (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is paid in respect of children who have a severe disability requiring 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. Eligibility for DCA is not based on the type of disability, but on the resultant...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Living Alone Allowance (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy in respect of the number of recipients of the living alone allowance during the period 2010 to 2015 is detailed in the attached tabular statement. The living alone allowance is an extra allowance paid by my Department to people on certain social welfare payments who are living alone. Information regarding the cost of this allowance is not segregated...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy in respect of the number of recipients of the age 80 allowance during the period 2010 to 2015 is detailed in the attached tabular statement. The age 80 allowance is an extra allowance paid automatically by my Department to people in receipt of certain social welfare payments on their 80th birthday. Information regarding the cost of this allowance is not...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: The 2015 grant of €100 will be paid beginning in September 2015 to households registered with Irish Water by 30th June 2015 in respect of their principal private residence. The Department will be writing to registered customers in late August and September to advise them of the application process. In order to minimise costs payment will be by electronic funds transfer. In...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for CA from the person in question on the 20th November 2014. The application is currently with a social welfare investigative officer for assessment of the level of care being provided, assessment of means and confirmation that all the conditions for receipt of carer’s allowance are satisfied. Once the investigative officer has...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Living Alone Allowance (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: Disability allowance arrears have been calculated and will issue to the person concerned shortly by his chosen payment method.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 3rd February 2015. The application was awarded on 19th May 2015 and the first payment is due to issue to the bank on 18th June 2015. Any arrears of allowance due (less any overlapping social welfare payment and/or outstanding overpayment) will issue in due course. The...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: The jobseeker's allowance (JA) claim of the person concerned has been transferred to the Maynooth Branch Office of this Department. This JA claim is currently suspended as the person concerned has been requested to submit a current Garda National Immigration Bureau card and proof of address. When the requested items have been supplied, the claim will be reviewed and the person concerned will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: No application for disability allowance has been made to date by the person in question. An application form for disability allowance issued today to the person concerned. He should complete the application form and return it in the envelope provided, upon the receipt of which, his entitlement to a disability allowance payment will be examined.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: The rate of disability allowance awarded to the person in question is correct based on information provided with his application. If his circumstances have changed, he should forward evidence to this effect and his entitlement will be reviewed.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person in question on the 10 April 2015 for a second care recipient. The person concerned was refused CA for that second care recipient on the grounds that he is not so disabled as to require full time care and attention as prescribed in regulations. She was notified on the 30th of April 2015 of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: The Department remains committed to supporting lone parents who wish to pursue education and training courses. That is why the Department has decided to allow one-parent family payment (OFP) recipients who are midway through an education course and who are scheduled to transition out of the OFP scheme on 2 July, 2015, to remain on the OFP payment until their course finishes. In some...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 9 March 2015. 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 Social Protection. These papers have been received in the Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: On completion of a Community Employment scheme on 18 May 2015 the person concerned reverted to a Jobseekers Allowance payment and requested a review their means from self-employment. The file has been sent to the Social Welfare Inspector for investigation - on receipt of the Inspector’s report the client’s current eligibility may be re-examined.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pacáiste Sochair Teaghlaigh (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: Bíonn sé mar chuspóir foriomlán ag an Rialtas ina chuid Cáinaisnéisí cosaint a thabhairt do na príomhrátaí leasa shóisialaigh. Tá caiteachas ar phinsin ag thart ar €6.675 billiún ar an mbloc caiteachais is mó sa Roinn i Meastachán 2015, ag léiriú thart ar 34.4% den chaiteachas foriomlán. Mar...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 20th April 2015. The application is currently being processed and once completed, the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome. The Department is committed to ensuring that claims are processed as expeditiously as possible and that backlogs in claims are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: In order to determine the circumstances of the person in question, her file was forwarded to her local Social Welfare Inspector. S/he will arrange to meet with the person concerned as soon as possible. A final decision on her entitlement to disability allowance will be given on receipt of the Social Welfare Inspectors report. The person in question will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: Invalidity pension (IP) is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work because of illness or incapacity and who satisfy the pay related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions. The department received a claim for IP for the person concerned on 21 April 2015. The person concerned was refused IP on the grounds that the medical conditions for the scheme were not...