Written answers

Thursday, 13 March 2008

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Social Welfare Appeals

1:00 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 127: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of appeals made to the director of customer services information and appeals arising from a refusal in respect of supplementary welfare and rent in each of the past five years to date; the number granted, refused or pending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11178/08]

Photo of Martin CullenMartin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance scheme (SWA), including rent supplement, is administered on my behalf by the Community Welfare division of the Health Service Executive (HSE). Under existing arrangements, an appeal against a decision for entitlement to SWA is made in the first instance to the designated appeals office in the HSE. A person may, if they so wish, make a subsequent appeal to the Social Welfare Appeals Office, if they are dissatisfied with the decision of the HSE appeals office. Details of the number of supplementary welfare allowance appeals to the HSE Appeals Office in 2006 are provided in Table 1 in the following tabular statement. The HSE has advised that complete records for the years 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007 are currently being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in the near future.

Statistics on the number of supplementary welfare allowance decisions appealed to the Social Welfare Appeals Office are provided in Table 2 of the following tabular statement.

Table 1: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Appeals to Health Service Executive's Appeals Office — 2006
YearReceivedGrantedRefused
20066,2141,6403,469
Table 2: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Appeals to the Social Welfare Appeals Office: 2002 to 2006
YearReceivedGrantedDisallowedPending
20022897020242
20034338033438
20043709722865
20053279221454
200632911620543
*Statistics for 2007 are unavailable at this time.

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