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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that two appeals by the person concerned were registered in that office on 9 April 2021 and 3 June 2021 respectively.  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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned notified my department on 19 April 2021 of a change in their means and circumstances and a review was carried out on their disability allowance (DA). Means were assessed from a foreign pension with effect from 26 May 2021 and the person concerned was informed of this in writing on 6 May 2021. The currency conversion rate which was used to assess the means was the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Under current social welfare legislation, a self-employed contributor will not be regarded as satisfying the contribution conditions for State pension (contributory) unless the person has paid self-employment contributions in respect of at least one contribution year prior to reaching age 66 and all self-employment contributions payable have been paid. While the person concerned has paid...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Deputy will be aware that the processes for the notification of births is the responsibility of the maternity services and the HSE registration services.  My Department has no direct role with respect to such matters. I am aware of the delays being suffered by the public as the HSE deals with the backlog of births and deaths registrations caused by the cyber-attack on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: While my Department and I have reviewed the Budget Perspectives 2022 paper with interest, I am not in a position to comment in detail on the specific methodology or assumptions which were used to cost measures by the ESRI. The analysis in this paper is mainly based on the fact that young people who remain unemployed will either not qualify for an unemployment payment, or if they do...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Pandemic Unemployment Payment, or PUP, has been an important support for hundreds of thousands of workers and their families through the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating Government's commitment to workers.  In total, over €8.2 billion has been paid out on PUP.  Approximately 870,000 workers have received at least one PUP payment.  The Government has also...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Short-Time Work Support is a non taxable social insurance contribution payment provided under Jobseekers Benefit for employees temporarily placed on a shorter working week by their employer and who are not being paid for days of unemployment. A person is entitled to payment of the support for any day of unemployment as long as they meet the scheme's conditions which include that they are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Under the Jobseeker schemes a person can work up to 3 days a week and still retain access to a reduced Jobseeker’s payment, subject to satisfying the statutory scheme conditions. Short-Time Work Support is a non taxable social insurance contribution payment provided under the Jobseeker's Benefit scheme for employees temporarily placed on a shorter working week by their employer and who...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment provides an income support to employees on low earnings with children.  As of May 2021 there were 45,816 families in receipt of the payment in respect of 148,647 children.  Overall expenditure on the scheme in 2020 is estimated to be approximately €397 million. Working Family Payment is a family benefit, as defined in EU Regulation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: My Department does not have specific responsibility for the health and safety provisions informing the return to work for current recipients of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment.  The Work Safely Protocol is the second revision of the Return to Work Safely Protocol, first published in May 2020. This revised Protocol incorporates the current advice on the Public Health...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Pandemic Unemployment Payment or PUP was an emergency measure introduced in the exceptional circumstances of Covid-19 to help cushion the financial impact on people temporarily laid-off work as a direct result of public health measures mandated by the Government. It has been an important support for hundreds of thousands of workers and their families through COVID19.  To...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Claimants with cohabiting partners are recognised within the social welfare system as having additional  needs in cases where their cohabiting partner is financially dependent upon them.  The payment of an Increase for a Qualified Adult (IQA) in addition to the personal rate of payment reflects these additional household needs. The IQA is payable in respect of a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Deputy will be aware that responsibility of the registration of births rests with the HSE. The Registration Services have been impacted by the recent cyber-attack on the HSE.  This has resulted in the service not being in a position to register births and deaths for at least four weeks. The General Register Office, which operated under the aegis of my Department, has...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Deserted Wife's Benefit is a payment made to a woman deserted by her husband. Entitlement to the payment is based on social insurance contributions paid by the wife or her husband as well as a number of other qualifying criteria. The Deserted Wife's Benefit scheme was closed off to new applications with effect from 2 January 1997, when One-Parent Family Payment was introduced. Some women...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: As of 13th July 2021 there are 4,343 persons under 25 years of age currently on the pandemic unemployment payment in County Cork. 

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. The number of CA applications in Co. Cork received and refused from 2019 to date are set out in tabular form below. - Carer’s Allowance – Co....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Domiciliary Care Allowance is administered centrally for the whole country. Information is not routinely collated on a county basis and therefore no specific figures for applications from county Cork are available. The number of all applications received and the number of those refused following initial application for the years in question is detailed in the table below. Year ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The table below outlines the approximate number of cases where the Department have been litigated against. As per Dáil Standing Order 69, it would be inappropriate to comment further on matters which are sub judice. Year Number of litigation cases where the Department of Social Protection is the respondent 2021 (to date) 20 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) was introduced as an emergency payment for employees and self employed people who lost employment as a direct consequence of Covid-19. To date expenditure on the scheme is over €8.2 billion. To be eligible for the payment, a person must satisfy all of the qualifying conditions of the statutory scheme which includes that they cannot be in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Jul 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that two appeals by the person concerned were registered in that office on 19 April 2021.  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.  Those papers...