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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The information requested (where available) by the Deputy is detailed in the attached tabular statement.  Average time to award scheme claims at end of June 2020  Scheme Average weeks to award State Pension (Contributory) 3 Widow(er)'s Contributory Pension 1 State Pension (Non-Contributory) ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements.  The information requested by the Deputy regarding the waiting time for appeals in respect of each social welfare scheme is contained...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I would respectfully suggest that the Deputy should direct this question to my colleague, the Minister for Health.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The public policy and social issues in relation to funding a sustainable and adequate State pension system are complex.  Therefore, the Government is establishing a Commission on Pensions to examine a range of issues including contributions, calculation methods, sustainability, eligibility and intergenerational fairness.  The Terms of Reference for the Commission on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Since June 2012, the Department's social welfare inspectors have been undertaking control checks at airports and ports. Section 250 (16) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, as amended, provides the legal basis for these checks.  While the number of checks has increased significantly in recent months, since the introduction of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP), this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: My Department does not have data sharing arrangements with any airports or ports.  It does not have access to travel data and nor does it have access to travel locator forms.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: My Department has a number of measures in place to ensure that recipients of payments continue to reside in the State. These include compliance checks conducted by social welfare inspectors at ports and airports, as well as communications with customers, either written, electronic or face-to-face, to confirm that the customer remains resident in the State and continues to meet all other...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The COVID 19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment is an income support payment for employees and self-employed resident in the State and who are unemployed due to a downturn in economic activity related to COVID 19.  Where a person is resident in Northern Ireland and working in Ireland and becomes fully unemployed due to the effects of the pandemic they are not entitled to the COVID19 Pandemic...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Services (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 855 and 856 together. The Youth Employment Support Scheme (YESS) was introduced on 1st October 2018 and has been open to applications since that date. YESS is targeted at young jobseekers aged between 18 and 24 who are long-term unemployed or who face barriers to employment. The scheme aims to provide jobseekers with the opportunity to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: A reduced rate generally applies for younger jobseeker’s allowance recipients aged 18-24 for the purpose of providing a strong financial incentive to participate in education or training to improve their chances of obtaining sustainable full time employment. Currently the weekly personal rate for jobseeker’s allowance recipients aged 18-24 years is €112.70.  Reduced...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government introduced a number of measures to assist employers whose businesses were significantly disrupted by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.  One of the main measures was the temporary wage subsidy scheme operated by the Revenue Commissioners. The legislation underpinning the temporary wage subsidy scheme requires...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Enterprise Support Services (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The back to work enterprise allowance (BTWEA) is designed to provide a monetary incentive for people in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment to develop a business while allowing them to retain a reducing proportion of their payment over two years; 100% in year 1 and 75% in year 2.  Since January 2017, jobseekers taking up self-employment are able to access the BTWEA after 9...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The back to education allowance (BTEA) provides income support for jobseekers and others in receipt of certain social welfare payments that pursue courses of education at second or third level.  The main focus of the BTEA is to assist qualifying applicants to improve their educational qualifications and improve their prospects of gaining employment. During the course of the roadmap to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The cost of Carer's Allowance and Carer's Benefit in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 is as follows; Carer’s Allowance: 2018 Outturn 2019 Provisional Outturn 2020 REV 2020 to end June €795.4 million €862.4 million €919.0 million €447.1 million Carer’s Benefit:  ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Government acknowledges the important 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, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Government acknowledges the crucial 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 in the National Carers’ Strategy.  The main income supports to carers provided by my Department are Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Support Grant (30 Jul 2020)

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.  Combined spending on all these payments to family carers in 2020 is expected to exceed €1.3 billion.  The Carer’s Support Grant is an annual payment of €1,700 a year for each care...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: From the 29th June the rate of Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) which a person receives will depend on their gross weekly employment earnings as follows; - For those whose prior gross earnings were €200 per week or higher (about 75% of recipients), the PUP payment rate remains at €350 per week; - For those whose prior gross earnings were up to €199.99 per week (about...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Government acknowledges the important 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, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The county breakdowns of persons who have received an unemployment payment, namely Jobseeker's Allowance, Jobseeker's Benefit and the Pandemic Unemployment Payment, for the week of July 28th 2020 are included in the tabular statement attached. The number of recipients of a Pandemic Unemployment Payment, Jobseeker's Allowance or Jobseeker's Benefit at the 28th of July 2020. ...