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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a suite of income supports for those unable to work due to illness or disability. These include insurance-based schemes, based on Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) contributions, and means-tested social assistance schemes. Invalidity Pension is a weekly payment to people who cannot work because of a long-term illness or disability and who are covered by PRSI...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The main income supports to carers provided by my department include Carer's Allowance, Carer's Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance, and the Carer's Support Grant. Spending on these payments in 2024 is expected to exceed €1.7 billion. The annual Carer’s Support Grant is available to all carers providing full-time care to an older person or a person with a disability, regardless...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The main income supports to carers provided by my department include Carer's Allowance, Carer's Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance, and the Carer's Support Grant. Spending on these payments in 2024 is expected to exceed €1.7 billion. Domiciliary Care Allowance is a monthly payment to a parent or guardian for a child aged up to 16 who has a severe disability and requires care and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a monthly payment to the parents or guardians of children under 16 years of age. Child Benefit can also be claimed for children aged 16,17 and 18, if they are in full-time education or full-time training or have a disability and cannot support themselves. There has been no change in the rate of Child Benefit since 2016. Child Benefit is paid on the first Tuesday of each...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a monthly payment to the parents or guardians of children under 16 years of age. Child Benefit can also be claimed for children aged 16,17 and 18, if they are in full-time education or full-time training or have a disability and cannot support themselves. There has been no change in the rate of Child Benefit since 2016. Child Benefit is paid on the first Tuesday of each...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly tax-free payment for employees with children which supports people in low paid employment. The WFP is designed to prevent in-work poverty for low paid workers with child dependents, and to offer a financial incentive to take up employment. Once awarded, WFP is payable for 52 weeks. At the end of the 52-week period, a customer must reapply (renew)...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance scheme provides a once-off payment to eligible families to assist with the costs of clothing and footwear when children start or return to school each autumn. The scheme operates from June to September each year. The allowance is payable in respect of eligible children between the ages of 4 and 17 in respect of whom a qualified child...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Back to Work Family Dividend payment is based on the customer’s Qualified Child entitlement on the date of their exit from Jobseekers or One Parent Family Payment into employment, subject to a maximum of four children. For the first year an amount equal to 100% of the qualified child increase is payable. This reduces to 50% for the second year. The rate of payment in January 2019...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Part-time Job Incentive Scheme (PTJI) is an administrative scheme under Jobseeker's Allowance, which allows those who are long-term unemployed to take up part-time employment for up to 24 hours per week and to receive a weekly income supplement where they satisfy the qualifying scheme conditions. The weekly rates of payment from 2019 to date in 2024 are shown below. Year Personal...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Widow’s, Widower’s, or Surviving Civil Partner’s Pension has a rate for recipients aged under 66 and a rate for recipients aged over 66. The maximum rate for those aged over 66 is the same as the maximum rate of State Pension (Contributory), and both rates increase in line with changes to the State Pension (Contributory). Over time, both pensions have experienced...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Bereavement Grant, which was a once-off payment of €850 for funeral costs, was discontinued in January 2014. The Widowed Parent Grant was introduced in 1999 to provide financial assistance to bereaved parents, with an initial rate of £1000. The Grant is now known as the Widowed or Surviving Civil Partner Grant. It offers more substantial support for parents who have lost a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Maternity Benefit is a payment made for up to 26 weeks to employed and self-employed women who are on maternity leave from work and who satisfy certain qualifying conditions including social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions on their own insurance record. To qualify for Maternity Benefit, a woman must be in insurable employment that is covered by the Maternity Protection Act, 1994,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Adoptive Benefit is a payment to adopting parents who are either employed or self-employed to support them during a period of adoptive leave. It provides for a weekly payment to be made to persons who qualify for Adoptive Leave under the Adoptive Leave Act 1995, and satisfy certain PRSI contribution conditions. Adoptive Benefit is paid for 24 weeks from the date of placement of the child....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a suite of income supports for those unable to work due to illness or disability. These include insurance-based schemes, based on Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) contributions, and means-tested social assistance schemes. The primary social assistance scheme for people who are blind or visually impaired is the Blind Pension, which is a means-tested payment payable to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Illness benefit is the primary short term income support provided by my Department to those who are unable to work due to illness of any type and who are covered by social insurance. Eligibility for illness benefit depends on the person’s PRSI record and class. People must have made the required number of contributions under PRSI Class A, E, H or P to qualify. The payment rates for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Treatment Benefit is a PRSI-based scheme which provides free dental and optical services, and assistance towards the provision of audiological appliances and hair replacement products, to people who satisfy certain qualifying conditions, and to their dependent spouses/partners. The following payment changes were made from 2019 to date in 2024, for persons who satisfy the medical requirements...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Injury benefit is one of the benefits under the occupational injuries benefit scheme. It is payable to people who were injured at work, who acquired an occupational disease at work, or who were injured travelling to and from work. The payment changes made to injury benefit from the year 2019 to date in 2024 are as follows: Date of Rate Change Personal Rate (€) Qualified Adult...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1303, 1304 and 1305 together. Disablement benefit is a benefit payable under the occupational injuries benefit scheme. The scheme is a compensation payment and caters for people injured or incapacitated by an accident at work or while travelling to or from work. The scheme also covers people who have contracted a disease as a result of the type of work they...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a suite of income supports for those unable to work due to illness or disability. These include insurance-based schemes, based on Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) contributions, and means-tested social assistance schemes. Invalidity Pension is a social insurance payment for people who are deemed permanently incapable of work due to a long-term illness or disability....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a range of income supports for people who are parenting alone, including the Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment, which is a means-tested payment. A person may qualify for this payment if they do not live with a spouse, civil partner or cohabitant and their youngest child is between 7 and 14 years old. The person concerned was awarded a JST payment on 05/08/2021 and...