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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a monthly payment made to families with children up to the age of 16 years. Currently, the payment continues to be paid in respect of children until their 18th birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. From May 1st, Child Benefit will be paid to anyone who is 18 and in full-time education (including 3rd level), or who has a disability, up until...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Council (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The proposal referred to in the question had been considered by officials in my Department and elsewhere previously. Then, in the context of the Pensions Council being the independent statutory body established to provide the Minister with advice on pensions matters, I requested the Council, in April 2023, to provide me with its own assessment of the proposal under five different headings. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The social welfare system provides significant recognition to those whose work history includes an extended period of time outside the paid workplace, often to raise families or in a full-time caring role. This is provided through the award of credits and/or disregards while an individual is engaged in caring. Details of these are: Credits – PRSI credits are awarded to recipients of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an Invalidity Pensions appeal by the person concerned was received in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that a Disability Allowance appeal by the person concerned was received in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all the evidence, disallowed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. As was confirmed in PQ Ref: 42106/23 an appeal on behalf of the person concerned was received by the Social Welfare Appeals...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Apr 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. I can confirm that an application for CA was received from the person concerned on 22 December 2023. The application...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66.? This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. I confirm that my Department received an application for DA from the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a monthly payment made to families with children up to the age of 16 years. Currently, the payment continues to be paid in respect of children until their 18th birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. I have secured approval to bring forward, from September to May, the extension of Child Benefit for 18-year-olds who are in full-time education or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Advertising (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department administers more than 90 separate schemes and services, which affect the lives of almost every person in the State. We are fully committed to ensuring that members of the public are aware of the welfare supports and services available, and ensure key changes are communicated to them. Public information campaigns play an important role in achieving this objective. All...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Leave (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The question of extending the duration of Maternity Leave would, in the first instance, be a matter for consideration by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth who has policy and legal responsibility for maternity leave. My Department has responsibility for the payment of any associated benefit. Maternity Benefit is paid for 26 weeks to employed and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 758 and 759 together. My Department provides a suite of income supports for those who are unable to work due to an illness or disability. These include contributory payments based on PRSI contributions, such as Illness Benefit and Invalidity Pension, and non-contributory payments based on a means test, such as Disability Allowance. Disability...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Referrals to the JobPath service ceased in June 2022 and the service is now in a run-off phase. The Department's contract for JobPath is expected to end in June 2024, following completion of the contract exit plan which is currently being progressed. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The table provided in response to parliamentary question no. 463 of 12 December 2023 showed the estimated additional PRSI yields in each of the individual years 2024 to 2030 and not cumulative year on year. To take the example provided in the question, the €913 million additional yield in the class A rate of employer PRSI in 2028 represents the additional yield on earnings in that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: This Government acknowledges the important role that family carers play and is fully committed to supporting them in that role. Accordingly, the State Pension system currently gives significant recognition to those whose work history includes an extended period outside of paid employment, often to raise families or in a full-time caring role. Despite these measures, some long-term carers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Business Supports (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a wide range of income and employment supports to assist jobseekers and employees with disabilities, and their employers. These supports include the Reasonable Accommodation Fund and the Disability Awareness Support Scheme. The Reasonable Accommodation Fund provides financial support for people with disabilities and for employers to help make their workplaces more...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: When a person in receipt of state pension non-contributory dies, their pension payment may continue for a period of 6 weeks after death, if the person's surviving spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment, or if the deceased's pension payment included an increase for qualified adult, in respect of their surviving spouse, civil partner or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: It is not the case that foster carers are not acknowledged as carers because they are. This Government acknowledges the important role that all carers, including Foster carers, play and is fully committed to supporting them in that role. Accordingly, the current State Pension (Contributory) system provides measures including PRSI credits, Home-making Disregards and Home Caring Periods to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 766, 768, 786, 787 and 799 together. The supplementary welfare allowance scheme is the safety net within the overall social welfare system in that it provides assistance to eligible people in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs and those of their dependents. Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, my Department may make...