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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is payable in respect of children who are ordinarily resident in the State, regardless of citizenship, provided the applicant satisfies the habitual residence condition. As a family benefit, Child Benefit is exportable in cases where an applicant is working in Ireland but where the child is living in another EU/EEA state. However, the exportability of Child Benefit does...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Child benefit is the main policy instrument for assisting families with the costs of raising children. It is a universal payment and is paid in respect of all qualified children up to the age of 16 years, or to the age of 18 in respect of children who are in full-time education or who have a disability. In order for payment to continue beyond the age of 16, proof of attendance at school or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Bodies (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is the statutory body responsible for supporting the provision of information, advice (including money and budgeting advice) and advocacy services on a wide range of public and social services. CIB delivers on this remit through its provision of some services directly to the public and through a network of service delivery companies. In February 2017,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The data requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table. SCHEME AVERAGE NO OF WEEKS TO AWARD MAY 2020 State Pension (Contributory) 4 Widow(er)'s Contributory Pension 1 State Pension (Non-Contributory) 5 Jobseekers Allowance 1 Jobseekers Benefit 1...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The emergency Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment has been introduced as a time-limited emergency measure so that payments can be made as quickly as possible to the large number of people who have become fully unemployed due to the pandemic. During the month of March, my Department received and processed jobseeker claims equivalent in number to a three year claim-load. These...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. An increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. To qualify the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing full-time care and attention and must show...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Industrial Disputes (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The matter of Community Employment (CE) Supervisor pension claim following the 2008 Labour Court Recommendation 19293 was the subject of an extensive discussion at the Community Sector High-level Forum, chaired by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER). Its role was to examine certain issues pertaining to the Community Employment sector and in particular the subject of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (7 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. Means are any income belonging to the carer and their spouse, civil partner, or cohabitant, property, (except their own...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The purpose of the insolvency payments scheme is to protect certain outstanding pay-related entitlements due to employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer. The scheme operates under the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) Act 1984, which derives from EU Directive 2008/94.Payments are made from the Social Insurance Fund. The Protection of Employees...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Under the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020 (No. 1), and subsequent regulations, the Government, having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of COVID-19, made exceptional provision in the public interest and to mitigate the effect of the spread of the disease to amend and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 488 and 489 together. The Community Employment Scheme (CE) 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. The programme is delivered through independent CE sponsoring...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Department of Employment Affairs & Social Protection provides two main options for payment methods for its customers: payments in cash at post offices or payments direct to customer accounts in financial institutions. The Department intends, where possible, to continue to offer its many clients the choice of being paid in cash at the post office or directly into an account in a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: State pension (contributory) is a social insurance payment made to people at pension age, who satisfy certain social insurance contribution conditions. Pension entitlement is assessed on the basis of the eligibility conditions applicable on the date an individual reaches pension age. Factors such as an individual’s social insurance record, their attachment to the workforce, and their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 492 and 493 together. 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, to take full advantage of the education provided to them. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 6 February 2020. 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 Employment Affairs and Social Protection. These papers were...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The management and distribution of tips is a matter of contract between an employer and an employee. There are currently no provisions in employment law or within any other statutory framework that oblige employers to deal with tips in a particular way. It is a matter for employers and employees to agree such terms. In the event of a breach of contract, it is open to either party to refer...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 18 March 2020. 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 Employment Affairs and Social Protection. These papers were received...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: An application for Domiciliary Care Allowance was received from the person concerned on the 5th December 2019. The application was not allowed as the child was not considered to satisfy the qualifying conditions for the allowance. A letter issued on the 24th February 2020 setting out the decision of the deciding officer to refuse the allowance. An appeal of the decision was registered...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (7 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. Once claims are in payment, the Department periodically reviews them to ensure that there is continued entitlement....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Meals-on-Wheels Services (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Contacts between the project sponsors and this Department have been on-going since October 2019. There was also a meeting in February 2020 between an official of my department and their counterpart in the HSE to discuss the matter. Due to Covid 19 restrictions the opportunity to meet with the scheme sponsors was not possible. However, following the easing of Covid 19 restrictions, a meeting...