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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on the 14thJuly 2014. 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: Carer's Allowance Applications (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 11th June 2014. The application was sent to a social welfare investigative officer for assessment of means. The onus is on all applicants to cooperate with the Department and to demonstrate that his/her means are below the statutory limit for the scheme in question. The...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on the 1stOctober 2014. 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: Public Services Card Registration (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The Department of Social Protection has developed, in conjunction with a number of other Government Departments, a rules based standard for establishing and authenticating an individual’s identity for the purposes of access to public services. This programme of work, which is known as the Standard Authentication Framework Environment or SAFE for short, also provided for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, has decided to allow the appeal of the person concerned by way of a summary decision. The person concerned has been notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Appeals (4 Nov 2014)

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 Appeals Officer’s decision issued in November 2013. Following the submission of additional evidence the Appeals Officer has set aside his decision and has re-opened...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: I am informed that the Department has no trace of an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question. If the person in question wishes to apply for carer’s allowance, she should complete and return an application form CR1 to the Department as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on the 16thOctober 2014. 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 Benefits Eligibility (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: Child benefit is a universal payment made to families with children. It assists those families with the cost associated with raising children. It is paid to almost 1,200,000 children in over 600,000 families. The estimated expenditure in 2014 will be €1.9 billion. Child benefit is of crucial importance to families, particularly middle-income families. For that reason, child benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The appeal for the person in question was allowed by the Social Welfare Appeals Office and the application for an increase in respect of a second care recipient was awarded on the 9th September 2014. Arrears of allowance due from 27th March 2014 to 10th September 2014 were issued to the bank on 18th September 2014. The person in question was notified of this decision on 9th September 2014...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 13thMay 2014. 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: Ministerial Meetings (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: I have not had any meetings with Mr. John Tierney, the managing director of Irish Water. Officials from my department have not had any bilateral meetings with Mr Tierney. However, advisers from my office attended two meetings with Mr Tierney and other Irish Water employees as well as officials from the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government to discuss general issues...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: A letter dated the 29thof August 2014 was received from the person concerned by the Department on the 2ndof September 2014 and acknowledged on the 5thof September 2014. A similar letter was also received by the Community Employment (CE) sponsor and employer of the person concerned. The Department wrote to the CE sponsor on the 5thof September 2014 requesting that they, as the employer,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: Carer’s allowance is a means tested income support payment that seeks to assist full-time carers on low incomes living within the jurisdiction who satisfy the habitual residence condition and who are providing full time care and attention to a person in need of such care. On 10th July 2014 the European Commission issued a reasoned opinion which called into question the restriction of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (4 Nov 2014)

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) and maternity benefit. Ordinary employees who have access to the full range of social insurance benefits pay class A PRSI at the rate of 4%. In addition, their...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received from the person concerned on the 20th August 2014. This application has been forwarded to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors for their medical opinion. Following receipt of this opinion, a decision will be made by a Deciding Officer and notified to the person concerned. It can currently take 10 weeks to process...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The Department will spend €230 million this year on the household benefits package for almost 415,000 customers. The Government has already announced that from 2015 the household benefits package and the fuel allowance will also include a quarterly water support payment of €25. The estimated cost of this new water support payment of €100 per annum will be in the region...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received from the person concerned on the 10thAugust 2010 and awarded in October 2010. The person concerned also made an application for DCA in respect of another child on the 13thSeptember 2010. This application was refused as it was considered that the child did not meet the criteria for the allowance. A letter issued on 8 November...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The current legislation allows this Department to recoup overpayments at 15% of a person’s personal rate of payment per week. In the case of the person concerned consideration was given at the time to the overpayment amount and to the amount of income received. As the person concerned is receiving a salary in addition to her one parent family payment an overpayment deduction amount of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: Child benefit is a monthly payment to assist with the costs associated with raising children. It is paid to more than 600,000 families in respect of almost 1.2 million children, with an estimated expenditure of around €1.9 billion in 2014. It is paid in respect of all qualified children up to the age of 16 years in line with the statutory school attendance age. The payment continues to...