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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Applications (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The person concerned has been awarded maternity benefit at a weekly rate of €235.00 commencing from 10 April 2017. As her claim was processed late she was due arrears of maternity benefit payment, from which the amount paid under the illness benefit scheme had to be deducted. This arises as maternity benefit and illness benefit cannot be paid simultaneously. Accordingly, a net...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The aim of the JobPath service, which is provided for jobseekers only, is to assist them in finding sustainable full time paid employment. Each person referred to the JobPath service is allocated a personal advisor who provides intensive individual support and assistance. When a jobseeker with JobPath finds employment, they will be supported by the JobPath Company for at least the first 13...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Where a person applying for a State pension (contributory) was, in addition to having been employed in Ireland, employed in another EU Member State, or in a country with which Ireland has a bilateral social security agreement, their insured periods in those countries may be combined with their Irish insurance to assess their entitlement to a pro-rata State pension (contributory). In addition...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I confirm that my Department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person concerned on 12 April 2017. Additional information in relation to the person’s application has been requested by a deciding officer on 25 May 2017.Once the information is received the application will be processed without delay and the person concerned will be notified directly of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The Department does not keep details of the number of employees per company based on company size as requested in your question, so the information requested by the Deputy is not available. There are currently 57,090 customers in receipt of Family Income Supplement. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: When processing applications for Family Income Supplement (FIS), my Department records the applicant’s occupation but not the sector of industry in which the applicant works, so the information requested by the Deputy is not available. The accuracy of the information recorded in respect of occupation is dependent on the information provided by the customer in their application. Where...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The following table sets out the number of persons in receipt of the family income support payment by county to date in 2017: County 2017 to Date CARLOW 954 CAVAN 1,268 CLARE 1,288 CORK 6,025 DONEGAL 2,708 DUBLIN 13,462 GALWAY 2,714 KERRY 1,720 KILDARE 2,356 KILKENNY 979 LAOIS 1,059 LEITRIM 365 LIMERICK 2,467 LONGFORD 771 LOUTH 2,185 MAYO 1,590 MEATH 2,293 MONAGHAN 1,115...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The following table sets out the age profile of recipients of Family Income Supplement (FIS) to date in 2017: Table Number of Recipients of Family Income Supplement by Age, 2017 Age Total 15 years 0 16 years 0 17 years 0 18 years 0 19 years 3 20 years 20 21 years 56 22 years 102 23 years 244 24 years 385 25 to 29 years 4,504 30 to 34 years 9,758 35 to 39 years 13,842 40 to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Dietary Allowance Administration (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 275 and 294 together. Diet supplement, administered under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, is payable to qualifying persons, in receipt of the supplement prior to February 2014, who have been prescribed a special diet as a result of a specified medical condition. There are currently 3,200 in receipt of the diet supplement of diet supplement...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy is aware, Community Employment (CE) is a labour market activation programme which helps long-term unemployed people (those 12 months or more in receipt of a jobseeker’s payment) and other disadvantaged groups to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work routine. It is designed to be a temporary fixed-term...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The legislation underpinning the definition of a child for the purposes of Child Benefit are contained in Sections 219 and 220 of the 2005 Social Welfare Consolidation Act. As a universal payment Child Benefit provides assistance to eligible families in recognition of the extra costs associated with raising children. Increases for a Qualified Child (IQCs) are paid as child-related...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Administration (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Child Benefit is a monthly payment made to families with children in respect of all qualified children up to the age of 16 years. The payment continues to be paid in respect of children up to their 18th birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. Child Benefit is currently paid to 623,135 families in respect of some 1.2 million children, with an estimated expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The following table sets out the number of recipients of family income support per county, on an annual basis in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017. County 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 to Date CARLOW 502 584 744 859 920 984 954 CAVAN 615 710 965 1,153 1,234 1,267 1,268 CLARE 736 763 1,028 1,181 1,280 1,313 1,288 CORK 3,016 3,372 4,683 5,354 6,039 6,110 6,025...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Services Programme (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The Community Services Programme (CSP) provides financial support to community companies and social enterprises that deliver revenue generating services of a socially inclusive nature. The provision of local social, economic and environmental services is the core aim of the CSP. Pobal is contracted by my Department to undertake the financial and contract management for the CSP. The...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The aim of the JobPath programme is to assist participants in finding sustainable full-time paid employment by providing intensive individual support and assistance. When selected for the JobPath activation programme in January this year, the person in question was in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance. It is a condition of the receipt of this payment that a recipient must be capable of,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I confirm that my Department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person concerned on the 15 March 2017. The application was referred to a local social welfare inspector (SWI) on 29 May 2017 to assess the level of care being provided, assess means and confirm that all the conditions for receipt of carer’s allowance are satisfied. Once the SWI has reported, a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The person concerned made an application for an Exceptional Needs Payment to assist with the cost of funeral expenses. Following an examination of the application, including all supporting documentation, the Designated Person has refused the application on the basis that the person concerned has a combined income, from both full time employment and a Widow’s Contributory Pension,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Social welfare legislation provides that the weekly value of property (including capital) belonging to the person (not being property personally used or enjoyed by the person or his or her spouse or a farm of land leased either by the person) which is invested or otherwise put to profitable use or is capable of being, but is not, invested or put to profitable use and the weekly value, is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The rate of state pension (contributory) pension entitlement payable to a person is directly related to contributions paid or credited over their working life.Similarly, pension entitlement payable from the UK authorities is based on the person’s UK social insurance record. The pension payments are not interchangeable. Where there is a shortfall in contributions for entitlement to an...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Budget Measures (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: My Department undertakes rigorous and extensive ex-ante and ex-post social impact assessments of the main welfare and direct tax budgetary policies. Social impact assessment (SIA) is an evidence-based methodology which estimates the likely distributive effects of policies on household incomes, families, poverty and access to employment. The analysis is generated through the ESRI’s...