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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (5 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: As part of the assessment of means for Rent Supplement, capital (savings and investments) over €5000 is assessed as means, on an increasing scale. The client concerned was requested to provide the Department with details of any savings accrued through the sale of the family home on 10th December 2014 and again on 24th February 2015. On receipt of this information the client's...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: The current entitlement of jobseeker’s allowance and fuel allowance in the case of the person concerned is: Personal Rate €188.00 Increase for Qualified Adult €124.80 Increase for Fuel Allowance €20.00 Sub Total €332.80 Less means €16.00 Weekly Rate of Payment €316.80 In addition arrears totalling €158.30 due to the person...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Appeals (5 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: The Department has no record of the person concerned seeking a review of a decision on an application for an exceptional needs payment. If he wishes to seek a review he should contact the Community Welfare Service of the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (5 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 25 February 2015. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these papers have been received from the Department, the case in question will be...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (5 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: Self-employed persons are liable for PRSI at the class S rate of 4% which entitles them to access long-term benefits such as State pension (contributory) and widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's pension (contributory) as well as guardians payment (contributory), maternity benefit and adoptive benefit. Ordinary employees who have access to the full range of social insurance...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: The Pensions Authority maintains a central register of all occupational pension schemes. Section 60 of the Pensions Act requires the trustees of a pension scheme to register the scheme with the Pensions Authority and regulations prescribe the details required for that registration. This includes the name of the scheme, the trustees and the sponsoring employer. With respect to the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: I am informed that there were 69,397 persons in receipt of one-parent family payment (OFP) at the end of February. However, the information requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of recipients of OFP in receipt of a court mandated maintenance payment or another such payment is not available.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned has recently received assistance with an exceptional needs payment under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme. It is open to the person concerned to request a review of this decision to the SWA Review Officer for his area who is based in Clondalkin Local Office. Contact information has been forwarded to the person concerned.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned has recently received assistance with an exceptional needs payment towards funeral expenses under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme. It is open to the person concerned to request a review of this decision to the SWA Review Officer for her area who is based in Clondalkin Local Office. Contact information has been forwarded to the person concerned.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Referral to Select Committee (4 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (4 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy, along with revenue from self-employed, is set out in the table. Social Insurance Fund PRSI Income from 2007 to 2014 (€,000) - Employers Employees Self-Employed TOTAL* 2007 €5,762,011 €1,539,147 €420,852 €7,722,010 2008 €5,944,892 €1,633,708 €405,582 €7,984,182 2009...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (4 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: An application for carer's allowance by the person in question was disallowed on 15 October 2014. The person in question appealed this decision on 1 December 2014. All the necessary papers, along with a submission from the deciding officer, have been recently submitted to the Social Welfare Appeals Office (SWAO) for determination. The SWAO has been made aware of the request for an oral...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Relocation (4 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: The Department’s Clerical Officer transfer list for Carrick-on-Shannon was put in place when the Central Applications Facility was established in 2004 to facilitate transfer requests for locations associated with the Decentralisation Programme. The Department’s HR Division has advised that the list currently in use comprises applications from 2004. The Public Appointments...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (4 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: Self-employed persons are liable for PRSI at the Class S rate of 4% which entitles them to access long-term benefits such as state pension (contributory) and widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's pension (contributory) as well as maternity benefit, adoptive benefit and guardians payment (contributory). Self-employed workers may also access social welfare supports by establishing...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Appeals (4 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, decided to disallow the appeal of the person concerned by way of a summary decision. The person concerned was notified of the decision on 16 July 2014. Under Social Welfare legislation, the decision of the Appeals Officer is final and conclusive and may only be...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Properties (4 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: The Office of Public Works (OPW) is the exclusive procurer of office accommodation for the civil service and the sole authority for allocating space to the civil service. The acquisition and leasing of accommodation (including the rental costs and duration of leases) are a matter for the OPW, who have been tasked with the management of the State’s property portfolio. The OPW has a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (4 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: State pensions account for the single largest block of social welfare expenditure, and expenditure on pensions is increasing annually due to demographic pressures. This year, the Department of Social Protection will spend an estimated €6.675 billion on pensions – 34.4% of all welfare expenditure and an increase of €168 million over 2014. While there have been significant...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (4 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: Before I introduced the reforms, the One Parent Family Payment was a passive scheme with limited engagement by the State with recipients. For many lone parents, most of whom are women, this has meant long-term social welfare dependency, associated poverty and social exclusion for them and their families. Social transfers have provided a hugely important buffer in reducing poverty....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Appointments to State Boards (4 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: The statutory bodies operating under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection are the Citizens Information Board, the Pensions Authority, the Pensions Council, the Pensions Ombudsman (which does not have a Board) and the Social Welfare Tribunal. No senior civil servants, who retired since 2011 from my Department, have been appointed, at any stage, to the boards of any of these...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Order for Second Stage (3 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."