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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 16...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The annual estimated costs of Maternity Benefit, Paternity Benefit and Parent's Benefit at the time each was introduced and the actual costs now are not directly comparable as there have been many changes to the schemes in the intervening years such as widened eligibility, extended durations and increased payments rates. Maternity Benefit is a payment made for 26 weeks to employed and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Equality Issues (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Intersex is understood to be an umbrella term for persons who are born with sex characteristics, such as chromosomes, genitalia, and/or hormonal structure, that do not belong strictly to male or female categories. It falls to the medical practitioner attending the birth to determine the gender of the child. However, where it is not possible for the gender of the child to be medically...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Under the law as currently enacted, entitlement to a widows, widowers or surviving civil partner’s contributory pension is only available to a surviving partner who was party to a legally registered marriage or civil partnership. On Monday 22nd January 2024, the Supreme Court delivered its judgment in relation to the entitlement of an unmarried co-habitant to a widows, widowers or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Department of Social Protection, through its nationwide network of Intreo centres, provides a case managed employment service for jobseekers with disabilities. The person works with an Employment Personal Advisor with a view to agreeing a suitable personal progression plan in order to access the full range of employment supports available. There are a number of supports available to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I have been advised that my Department received an application for Disability Allowance from the person concerned on 28 December 2023. To qualify for a Disability Allowance payment a person must: be substantially restricted in undertaking suitable employment, be aged between 16 and 66, satisfy a means test and be habitually resident in the State. Based on the supporting evidence supplied...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. My Department is committed to providing a quality service to all its customers, ensuring...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. During 2023, the Department received over 28,700 new applications for DA. Over the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: 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. My Department received 22,633 applications for CA in 2023. Of those, 542 applicants were in Co. Clare. I hope this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: 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 can confirm that 10,875 CA applications were disallowed in 2023. To date in 2024, 3,384 CA applications have been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. The payment is available to any resident within the European Union or UK who meets the qualifying conditions. To qualify, the Carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. The payment is available to any resident within the European Union or UK who meets the qualifying conditions. To qualify, the Carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Overpayments of social welfare assistance and benefit payments arise as a consequence of decisions made under the relevant sections of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 2005 (as amended). Customers who have been overpaid social welfare have a liability to refund the overpayment as they have been in receipt of a payment to which they were not entitled. The Department has a central...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is the statutory body under the aegis of my Department with responsibility for supporting the provision of information, advice and advocacy on a wide range of public and social services. CIB delivers these functions primarily through funding 22 Service Delivery Companies. These Service Delivery Companies are independent Companies Limited By Guarantee...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The introduction of an automatic enrolment (AE) retirement savings system is a Programme for Government commitment and a key priority for me as Minister for Social Protection. Implementation of the AE system is well underway, with the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024 now having completed Committee Stage in the Dáil and a tender process to contract for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 16...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. I confirm that my Department received an application for DA from the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: 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. In order to qualify, applicants must show that they are habitually resident in the State, that their means are less...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The following bodies operate under the aegis of my Department; The Citizens Information Board, The Pensions Authority, The Pensions Council and The Social Welfare Tribunal. There are no cases relating to the above bodies currently before Scope Section of the Department of Social Protection, for investigation or determination. Scope Section did not make any employment misclassification...