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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Pensions (7 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...increase to weekly rates of payment, the Government decided to front-load supports through the provision of special payments including extra fuel allowance, working family payment, child benefit, carer's allowance, disability allowance, qualified child and living alone payments. These payments are in addition not only to the €12 increase in the weekly payment rate, but to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (7 Dec 2023) See 7 other results from this debate

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome that because it will make a huge difference, along with the change in the means test for the carer's allowance, which is getting nearer to the target the social welfare committee was heading towards and the recommendation of a disregard of the first €500 for a single person and the first €1,000 for a couple. It is getting much nearer to that, at €450 and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (7 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...the State pension system is to be addressed through gradual incremental increases in social insurance rates, which has happened, the introduction of enhanced State pension provision for long-term carers of incapacitated dependants and a smoothed earnings method of calculating the benchmarking index rate of State pension payments, which is to be introduced as an input into the annual budget...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (7 Dec 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...information. I welcome that the Department recently undertook a scoping exercise. I hope the review into the differential rent scheme will start and finish as soon as possible. I know that Family Carers Ireland made a submission, and I will deal with that in my supplementary contribution. For now, I will speak about how we ended up in this situation in the first place. The mass sale...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Dec 2023)

Mark Daly: ...women in the home and the concept of a family. Those are important debates that we will have. As the Deputy Leader is aware from her current and previous roles, the removal of the means test for carer's allowance has been debated repeatedly. The issue was raised recently in Kerry by Kathleen O'Sullivan from Portmagee, who looks after her daughter, Hannah, who has cerebral palsy....

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023) See 6 other results from this debate

Joe O'Brien: ...this week to over 1.3 million recipients. There will be another double payment for those recipients in January 2024 as well as one-off payments for recipients of working family payment, disability and carers' payments, living alone allowance, fuel allowance and child benefit and those in receipt of an increase for qualified children. These measures do not require primary legislation and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Claire Kerrane: 102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection why approved carer's allowance applicants are waiting weeks to receive their first payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53472/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...rate of increase to weekly rates of payment, the Government decided to 'front-load' supports through the provision of special payments including extra fuel allowance, working family, child benefit, carers', disability, qualified child and living alone payments. These payments are in addition not only to the €12 increase in the weekly payment rate, but to the Christmas bonus...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her Department’s plans for a public awareness campaign to alert long-term carers to changes in their pension provisions under the provision of Social Welfare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52958/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this answer

Aindrias Moynihan: 111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when details on the carer’s pension will be available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54185/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...20 years or more. Where a person has not been in a position to satisfy the minimum of 520 paid contributions condition for pension purposes due to the time spent caring, they may be entitled to long-term carer's contributions. Long-term carer's contributions can be awarded to a person who has cared for an incapacitated person for a period of 20 years. These contributions will be treated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Paul McAuliffe: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to make provision for pension contributions for foster carers where they are unable to take-up other employment due to their role as a foster carer. [54218/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (7 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...of Budget 2024. This represents, for the second year in a row, the largest Budget package for the Department of Social Protection in the history of the State and will help to support our pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, lone parents and families during this difficult period. The Budget Package included:Weekly Personal and Qualified Adult Rates increases by €12Increase...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (7 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...a single person and €1,000 for a couple. These changes resulted in an additional 35,000 households joining the scheme so far.Last year, I significantly increased the income and capital disregards for Carer's Allowance. This enables more carers with modest incomes to become eligible for the scheme and allows carers and their families to earn more from employment while retaining...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (7 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Denis Naughten: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has given consideration to a submission from Family Carers Ireland on the introduction of a non-means-tested participation income for family carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53878/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (7 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...in measures to assist households with the cost of living. This includes across-the-board increases of €12 per week in all core payments and will be combined with a series of lump sum payments for carers, people with disabilities, working families as well as those living alone on low incomes. There will be a Christmas Bonus paid in December to 1.3 million welfare recipients and for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...care to a person including a disabled child under 16 may be entitled to other related payment(s) from my Department, subject to satisfying the relevant qualifying criteria. My Department's Carer's Allowance (CA) payment 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 an adult or a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which carer's allowance is payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54411/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...is €265.30, i.e., the same as the maximum rate of the SPC, with allowances (notably the Living Alone Allowance) payable where applicable.This Government acknowledges the important role that family carers play and is fully committed to supporting them in that role. Accordingly, the current State Pension (Contributory) system provides measures including PRSI credits, Homemaking...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current position in respect of restoration of a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54417/23]