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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Jul 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 received in that office on 27 March...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Jul 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 can confirm that the person concerned is currently in receipt of Disability Allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The key role of the Department of Social Protection is to provide income supports where there is an income need. My department provides a comprehensive package of carers’ income supports including Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the Carer’s Support Grant. Combined spending on all these payments to carers in 2024 is expected to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 462 and 463 together. The Government acknowledges the valuable role that family carers play and is fully committed to supporting carers in that role. This commitment is recognised in both the Programme for Government and the National Carers’ Strategy. The main income supports to carers provided by my department are Carer’s Allowance,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 464 and 468 together. The Government acknowledges the valuable role that family carers play and is fully committed to supporting carers in that role. This commitment is recognised in both the Programme for Government and the National Carers’ Strategy. The main income supports to carers provided by my department include Carer's Allowance, Carer's...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The main income supports to carers provided by my department are Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the Carer’s Support Grant. Spending on these payments is expected to amount to over €1.7 billion this year. The Carer’s Allowance scheme is the main scheme by which the Department provides income support to carers in the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (9 Jul 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. A travel expenses disregard is included in the CA means test on an administrative basis at a rate of €15.00....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My department provides a comprehensive package of carers’ income supports including Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the Carer’s Support Grant. At end of June, there were 97,127 people in receipt of Carer's Allowance. Combined spending on all these payments to carers in 2024 is expected to exceed €1.7 billion. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) from late September to April, at an estimated cost of €382 million in 2024. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. Only one allowance is paid per household. While Carer's Allowance is not a qualifying payment for Fuel Allowance, a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Jul 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 26...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment (WFP), formerly Family Income Supplement, is a weekly in-work support which provides an income top-up for employees on low earnings with children. To qualify for Working Family Payment the customer must have at least 1 qualified child who normally resides with them and be working a minimum of 38 hours per fortnight in ongoing insurable employment. A review of WFP for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artificial Intelligence (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department does not permit the use of ChatGPT on the Department’s network. The Department does not use A.I. to assist in drafting Dáil speeches or responses to Parliamentary Questions.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Equipment (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My department holds records of lost and stolen mobile phones for the requested period and laptops from 2020. Mobile phones lost or stolen for the requested period are listed in tabular form below. Year Lost Stolen 2014 18 0 2015 7 2 2016 3 1 2017...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Illness Benefit is a payment for people who cannot work due to illness and who satisfy the pay-related social insurance contribution conditions. Illness Benefit is classified as a short term scheme, and is paid for a maximum of one year if a person has between 104 and 260 total PRSI contributions paid since entering insurable employment, and a maximum of two years provided a person has least...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) from late September to April, at an estimated cost of €382 million in 2024. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. Only one allowance is paid per household. The Fuel Allowance is paid to social welfare recipients such as pensioners,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 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. Child Benefit was paid to 652,000 families in respect of 1.2 million children at a cost of €2.4 billion in 2023....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Free Travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. There are over one million customers with direct eligibility. This increases to 1.75 million customers when spouses and companions are included. The estimated expenditure on free travel in 2024 is €104 million. A widow, widower or a surviving civil...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (9 Jul 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: Tax Credits (9 Jul 2024)

Heather Humphreys: If a self-employed contributor with earned income (for example from a business or trade) paying class S PRSI has additional work in the same year for which a class A PRSI contribution(s) is payable there is no effect on the class S contributions, and they remain on the person's insurance record. In relation to unearned income (for example income from rents or investments), under...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension (9 Jul 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 marriage or civil partnership. On Monday 22nd January, the Supreme Court delivered its judgment in relation to the entitlement of an unmarried cohabitant to a Widow's, Widower's or Surviving Civil...