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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Arrears of State pension (contributory) are due to the estate of the deceased person. Where the deceased person has made a will, any uncollected payments due may be paid to the Executor or Executrix of the deceased's estate. Where a person dies without making a will, any arrears due may be paid to whomever appears to be beneficially entitled as determined by my Department. This generally...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work payment, which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with qualified children. In order to qualify for WFP, an applicant, or the applicant and their spouse, partner or cohabitant must be engaged in full-time remunerative employment as an employee for not less than 38 hours per fortnight. This employment condition must be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The telephone support allowance (TSA) is a weekly payment of €2.50. The estimated full year cost of the scheme is over €17.5 million. To receive the allowance a customer of my Department must be in receipt of a qualifying payment such as the State pension and also in receipt of the Living Alone Allowance and the Fuel Allowance. The scheme supports recipients by assisting with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an income tested, in-work payment which provides additional income support to employees on low income with children. WFP applications are processed based on an applicant's circumstances, including employment earnings and income status that apply at the time of application, in accordance with the relevant social welfare legislation. The governing legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that my Department has allocated a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) to the individual referred to by the Deputy. A letter issued to the individual on 23rd November 2020 with details of the PPSN. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that my Department has allocated a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) to the individual referred to by the Deputy. A letter issued to the individual on 23rd November 2020 with details of the PPSN. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: As my Department does not provide funding for the initiative referred to by the Deputy, I am not in a position to comment on its operation by the named organisation.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Protected Disclosures (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I am aware of the issues referred to by the Deputy and note that my colleague, the Minister of State with responsibility for Community Development and Charities, answered Parliamentary Questions on these issues for the Deputy on November 3rd last. My Department is one of a number of bodies that provides funding to the named organisation - funding is provided for the Local Employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that my Department has allocated a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) to the individual referred to by the Deputy. A letter issued on 24th November 2020 with details of the PPSN. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Training Support Grant (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Training Support Grant (TSG) is designed to fund quick access to short-term training or related interventions for Jobseekers who have identified work opportunities or where Case Officers have identified an immediate skills gap that represents an obstacle to a Jobseeker in taking up a job offer. Priority is given to those who are most likely to progress to employment following this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Living Alone Allowance (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: An application for the Living Alone Increase was received from the person concerned on 11 November 2020. The increase was awarded with effect from 12 May 2020, backdated six months from date of receipt, in line with social welfare legislation. The person was notified of this decision on 23 November 2020. Further backdating of this allowance beyond six months may be considered where the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Invalidity pension (IP) is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work because of illness or incapacity and for no other reason and who satisfy the pay related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions. A claim for IP was received from the gentleman concerned on 12 November 2020. In order to assist with the assessment of the person’s medical eligibility for IP,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (26 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Under previous tax law, the husband of a married couple was considered the assessable spouse and the wife was considered a dependant of the husband. Accordingly, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revenue) allocated the husband’s Revenue and Social Insurance (RSI) number to the wife and appended a “W” to the end so that they could be separately identified but...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: During the COVID-19 emergency, the Government has been seeking to implement and operate supports that are targeted where most needed, to ensure continued economic activity and reduce the risk of poverty. While the primary State income support in respect of people who are aged 66 years or over is the State Pension – either the State Pension (contributory) or the State Pension...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (25 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: My Department’s records indicate that the person concerned made two applications for Jobseeker’s Allowance, one online application on the 10 April 2020 and a second application by paper form on 14 May 2020. Jobseeker’s Allowance was awarded from 18 May 2020 with a commencement date of 10 April 2020.A quarantine period of 14 days was not applied to the claim commencement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Training Support Grant (25 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Training Support Grant, available through my Department, is designed to support quick access to short-term training where the training is not delivered by a State provider. The grant assisted approximately 5,600 jobseekers with short-term training needs in 2019. As part of the July Stimulus the funding available through this grant was doubled from €500 to €1,000. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: A total of 350,072 individuals received payment of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment on 17 November 2020, an increase of 7,567 on the previous week. To date, over 13 million payments have issued since the commencement of the scheme in March of this year. Following a number of queries regarding non-receipt of payments on 17 November, 636 cases were identified where payments had not issued...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Since the introduction of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment scheme in March, approximately 815,000 people have applied for payment and in some cases, they have done so on a number of occasions as they moved in and out of employment or where their employer availed of the Revenue Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme. Consequently, there are over 1.4 million applications to be examined to determine if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Since the introduction of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment scheme in March, approximately 815,000 people have applied for payment and in some cases, they have done so on a number of occasions as they moved in and out of employment or where their employer availed of the Revenue Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme. Consequently, there are over 1.4 million applications to be examined to determine if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Since the introduction of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment scheme in March, approximately 815,000 people have applied for payment and in some cases, they have done so on a number of occasions as they moved in and out of employment or where their employer availed of the Revenue Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme. Consequently, there are over 1.4 million applications to be examined to determine if...