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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned will reach pension age in April 2020. They have not applied for state pension (contributory). It is not possible to determine a person's entitlement to pension in the absence of a completed application form. They should submit an application for state pension (contributory) without delay. Upon receipt of their application, their contribution record will be fully...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: 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 on 12 February 2020. The person concerned was notified of that decision. Under social welfare legislation the decision of the Appeals Officer is generally final and conclusive and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: I am advised that the Department has no record of an application for a Personal Public Services Number (PPSN) in respect of this individual. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: I am advised that the Department has no record of an application for a Personal Public Services Number (PPSN) in respect of this individual. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned has been awarded Illness Benefit from 24/01/2020. Illness Benefit is not payable for the first six days of this claim, excluding Sunday. The person concerned is in receipt of the maximum Personal and Qualified Adult Dependant rates. The person concerned has been paid up to and including 27/02/2020 I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned was informed by a decision letter dated 10/2/2020 that she was not entitled to a Jobseeker’s Allowance payment as she had stated she was not available to take up full-time work; that she had not made reasonable efforts to find full-time work, and had not shown that her means are less than the weekly rate of Jobseeker’s Allowance appropriate to her family...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Non-Contributory) Applications (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: An application for State pension non-contributory was received from the person concerned on 16 May 2019. The case was referred to an Inspector of the Department on 23 May 2019 to interview the applicant and provide a means report. The Inspector interviewed the person concerned on a number of occasions and on 1 October 2019 requested further information and sought a further interview....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: The Telephone Support Allowance (TSA) is a weekly payment of €2.50. Approximately 131,000 customers are in receipt of the TSA payment. The estimated full year cost of the scheme is over €17 million. To receive the allowance a customer of my Department must be in receipt of a qualifying payment and also in receipt of the Living Alone Allowance and the Fuel Allowance. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: Maternity benefit is payable when a woman on maternity leave from work has the required number of paid PRSI contributions/credits on their social insurance record and has paid a class A contribution within 16 weeks of the end of the week in which their baby is due. The three most recent complete calendar years are considered along with the current year when determining eligibility to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: 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. The person concerned was in receipt of CA for one care recipient only. This payment was in place from 22 May 2014...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that only one appeal by the person concerned was received in that office in respect of Domiciliary Care Allowance. An Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, decided to allow the appeal by way of a summary decision on 22 January 2020. The person concerned was notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned purporting to be an Angolan national, of a certain name and date of birth, entered the State in or around 2006. He was allocated a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) and held a Garda National Immigration Bureau Card Stamp 4. The person concerned was in receipt of a Jobseeker’s Allowance payment from January 2014 to January 2019. In September 2018, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: According to the records of my Department, an application for a Back to Education Allowance has not been received from person concerned. It is open to the person concerned to apply for a Back to Education Allowance. He can contact his local Intreo Centre where information is available on all schemes and services offered by my Department. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned was in receipt of a jobseeker payment that included an increase in respect of a Qualified Adult from 5thFebruary 2018 to 28thAugust 2018. Persons in receipt of means-tested payments are obliged to inform the Department of any change in their means or circumstances which may affect the rate of payment. During the course of review of the person's entitlement, it came to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. An increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. An application for CARB was received on 14 February 2020 from the person concerned. To qualify the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: In order to qualify for treatment benefit, including optical, dental and hearing aid benefit, a PRSI contributor must satisfy a number of conditions. These include, for those aged between 25 and 65 years, having a total of 260 paid contributions at class A/E/H/P or S since entering insurable employment and having at least 39 reckonable contributions paid or credited in the relevant tax year...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. An increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. To qualify the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing full-time care and attention and must show that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Legislation (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: Increasing pension age, to moderate the increase in pension duration, is a means by which pensions can be made sustainable in the context of increasing longevity.  In order to provide for sustainable pensions and to facilitate a longer working life, legislation passed in 2011 provides for an increase in the State pension age in three separate stages.  In 2014, the State pension age...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, the Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income.  An urgent needs payment (UNP) may be made to persons who may not normally qualify for SWA but who have an urgent need which they...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: My Department has no role in setting the level of pension increases received by members of occupational pension schemes, irrespective of whether those schemes operate in the semi-state sector or private sector.  Pension increases for occupational pensions are entirely a matter for the scheme trustees and the sponsoring employer to whom enquiries should be...