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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Government has requested employers to be as flexible as possible in allowing staff time off to look after their children or other family members.  This may include offering paid compassionate leave, remote working from home, altering shift patterns around their partners work, bringing forward annual leave entitlements, etc. Where it is not possible to make appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: 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. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 17 July 2020. Additional information in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: General Register Office (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The General Register Office (GRO) has implemented measures, in consultation with the Health Service Executive (HSE), to support the continued provision of civil registration services, both at the onset of and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In line with other public service providers, restrictions on public access to civil registration offices operated by the HSE remain in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 604, 611 and 627 together. The COVID 19 pandemic unemployment payment was introduced as an emergency measure to meet the surge in unemployment which resulted from the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic.  In order to ensure that the scheme was simple and accessible for the unprecedented number of applicants, a flat payment rate was introduced. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The COVID 19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment is available to people aged between 18 and 66 years, and the age range is consistent with other jobseeker and social protection income supports paid to people of working age. People aged 66 years and over are provided for within the Social Protection income support framework through the State Pension, either the contributory State pension based on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Rent supplement continues to play a key role in supporting families and individuals in private rented accommodation, with the scheme currently supporting approximately 20,600 recipients. The scheme provides short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme.  These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 80 private transport operators.  There are currently approx....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: When a customer makes a claim for a Jobseekers payment online through their MyWelfare.ie account, the Department is obliged to make any such payment to the customer in accordance with the bank account details which the customer has provided. Where the account detail information provided is not valid, a payment made will be returned by the bank to the Department.  In all other cases,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) is currently paid at two rates, depending on the amount a customer earned prior to receipt of PUP. If a customer earned €200 per week or more, the rate of payment is €350 per week. If a customer earned less than €200 per week, they will receive €203 per week, which is the same as the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: A letter has been issued to the person concerned to confirm the amount of the overpayment and the balance due to them.  Authorisation has been forwarded to my Department's Accounts Branch for payment of the outstanding amount. I hope this clarifies the position for the Deputy. 

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Overpayments of social welfare assistance and benefit payments arise as a consequence of decisions made under the relevant sections of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 2005 (as amended).  Where an overpayment is raised, the Department makes every effort to recover the amount overpaid in full in the shortest time period. Overpayments can take a number of years to be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: From the 29th June, the higher rate of Pandemic Unemployment Payment is only payable to those who had average weekly reckonable income of €200 or greater from self-employment prior to applying for the PUP.  As the Department has identified the person concerned as self-employed, it is basing its decision on their return of income in the 2018 tax year. In their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an income tested, in-work payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children and to offer a financial incentive to pursue employment. The numbers of Defence Force employees in receipt of WFP are as follows:  Employee Category WFP Recipients NCO's & other ranks ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 619 and 621 together. The estimated cost of providing a one-off double monthly payment of Child Benefit is €172.7m.   The cost provided is based a double monthly child benefit payment  in one month of the year and is based on the estimated number of recipients in 2020. 

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The following table provides the estimated full year revenue in 2021 arising from the introduction of each of the employers' rates of PRSI listed on the portion of salaries over €100,000. PRSI % Yield 12.75 €99.8m 13.75 €158.5m 14.75 €217.3m 15.75 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The school meals programme provides funding towards the provision of food to some 1,580 schools and organisations benefitting 250,000 children.  The objective of the scheme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children who are unable, due to lack of good quality food, take full advantage of the education provided to them.  The programme is an important...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: An officer of my Department has contacted the person concerned and advised her regarding suitable supports.  The person concerned declined to submit an application for Supplementary Welfare Allowance at this time but was assured that she could contact the Community Welfare Service in the future to seek advice/assistance if her circumstances necessitate this. I trust this clarifies the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Department has reviewed this matter and there is no indication that anyone other than the person concerned collected these payments and this issue was not raised by her at that time. The contention that someone else collected the payment has not been raised as an issue up to now and was not raised in any of two previous correspondences. Where a payment is made at a post office, as in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: From 29th June the rate of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) which a person will receive 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 will remain at €350 per week; - For those whose prior gross earnings were up to €199.99 per week...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 628 and 630 together. The COVID 19 pandemic unemployment payment was introduced as an emergency measure to meet the surge in unemployment which resulted from the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. To be eligible for the pandemic unemployment payment a person must have been in employment immediately prior to the 13th March and lost their income from...