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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)
Verona Murphy: 242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of carers allowance/benefit, including half carers payments, in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7084/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)
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. Carer’s Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who may be required to leave the workforce or reduce...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)
Verona Murphy: 243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the carers respite grant in 2023 in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7085/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)
Heather Humphreys: ...Other people who are not in receipt of a social welfare payment but who are providing full time care and attention may also be eligible and can apply for the standalone CSG. The payment is made regardless of the carer's means but is subject to certain conditions, one of which is that the period of full-time care and attention must last for at least six months. For the purpose of...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)
Verona Murphy: 244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for carers allowance/benefit from residents in County Wexford in 2023; the number of those applications that were awarded and the number that were refused; the number of outstanding 2023 applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7086/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)
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. Carer’s Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who may be required to leave the workforce or reduce...