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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (24 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Department is not a position to assess this customers eligibility as a request for further information required to make a decision was sent to the client on the 12th August 2013 to which no response has been received.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (24 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: According to the records of this Department the person concerned has not submitted an application for a rent supplement in respect of his current address.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (24 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: Child benefit is paid up to and including the month of a child's 16th birthday, and continues to the month of the 18th birthday provided the child is in full-time education. In order for payment to continue after the age of 16, it is necessary for the school/college to certify that the child is in full-time education and will be until the age of 18. In the case of the person concerned, a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications (24 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: According to the records of this Department the person concerned has not recently submitted an application for supplementary welfare allowance. The person concerned was previously refused supplementary welfare allowance for failure to attend two oral appeals hearings with respect to a jobseeker's allowance claim.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Data (24 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: All anonymous or confidential reports received are examined and where relevant, are referred to scheme owners and/or to the Department's inspectors for follow-up action. It is very important to note that a payment is not suspended or stopped on the basis of an anonymous report. The anonymous report, however, may be a “trigger” for of a review of a customer's entitlement. In...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (24 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: Budget 2014 provided for: expenditure reduction measures of €226 million in 2014; €30 million in savings through additional fraud and control measures; and €34 million in savings through efficiencies and lower than anticipated expenditure on certain schemes, an overall expenditure reduction package of €290 million in 2014. The savings in 2015, 2016, 2017 and in a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Poverty Impact Assessment (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. There are currently over 82,000 rent supplement recipients for which the Government has provided over €403 million...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 118 and 134 together. The purpose of rent supplement is to provide short-term support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. The overall aim is to provide short-term assistance, and not to act as an...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The number of persons aged 25 or under in receipt of jobseeker's benefit or in receipt of jobseeker's allowance are 3,153 and 51,076, respectively. Provision of the information requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of dedicated training placements she is making exclusively available to those aged 25 or under is the responsibility of my colleague Ruairí Quinn T.D., Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 120 and 121 together. Increasing State pension age and the abolition of the State pension (transition) are steps that have been taken to ensure the sustainability of pensions into the future. The decision to reform State pension was taken in the context of changing demographics and the fact that people are living longer and healthier lives. The Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that there is no record of any appeal by the person concerned having been received by that office. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received from the person concerned on the 12th August 2013. This application was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who considered that the child was not medically eligible for the allowance. A letter issued on the 13th September 2013 advising her of the decision. She subsequently requested a review of this decision and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: My overall concern in this Budget has been to protect the primary social welfare rates. To allow us to protect these core payments, we have had to look very carefully at other additional payments such as the household benefits package, including the telephone allowance. While we have cut the telephone allowance, there have been no cuts to the electricity/gas allowance, free travel, the free...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 5 July 2013. 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 were received in the Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an Appeals Officer, having considered all of the evidence presented, has decided to disallow 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 and of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The application for carer's allowance by the person in question was disallowed on the 23rd of January 2013. The person in question appealed this decision and submitted additional evidence in support of the application. The decision was reviewed by a deciding officer in the light of the additional evidence supplied but there was no change in the decision and the customer wax notified of this...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (23 Oct 2013)

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 and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Guardian's Payment Appeals (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 15th October 2013, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. Your request for an oral hearing in this case has been forwarded to the Appeals Officer. The Social Welfare Appeals...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The client's entitlement has been examined and full entitlement to rent supplement is being paid.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Community Employment (CE) scheme is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed term basis. St Nicholas of Myra CE scheme has approval for 47 participants and two supervisors in a variety of work experience roles....