Written answers

Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
    48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the cases of persons who have failed to qualify for a contributory pension under new criteria introduced in 2012 that...
  • Legislative Reviews
    53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to publish the review of the policy outlined in section 18 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014, which...
  • Employment Support Services
    54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the type of job schemes that are or will be available to young persons with disabilities in counties Cavan and Monaghan and...
  • Proposed Legislation
    55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of proposed legislation to deal with bogus self-employment; the progress in drafting such legislation; when such a...
  • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
    56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department is refusing access to the back to education allowance to applicants undertaking a professional...
  • Pensions Legislation
    57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her plans to introduce an auto-enrolment pension system; the expected date the system will come into operation;...
  • Public Services Card Data
    58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has responded to the draft report and request of the Data Protection Commission for further information on...
  • Legislative Measures
    60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 will be signed into law before Christmas 2018; when the provisions of...
  • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
    62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if pensioners born before 1 September 1946 who are of the view they could benefit from the new total contributions system...
  • Social Welfare Overpayments
    63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the recovery of overpayments for social welfare; the amount outstanding for persons that are unemployed;...
  • Pensions Legislation
    64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce or amend legislation to enable representation and arbitration for members of semi-State defined benefit...
  • Social Welfare Code Review
    65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to carry out a review of the way in which capital and savings are assessed for the majority of means-tested social...
  • Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects
    66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the numbers participating in drug rehabilitation community employment schemes; and if she will make a...
  • Illness Benefit Waiting Times
    67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if illness benefit payments are now back at normal levels; if all fixes of the automated system have been put in place; and if...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Payments
    68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reduce the percentage deduction from payments for those is receipt of jobseeker's allowance and farm assist...
  • Brexit Issues
    70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to expedite the analysis being conducted by her Department on the impact of Brexit and reciprocal arrangements in...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
    71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to restore to the maximum rate jobseeker's payments to persons under 25 years of age; and if she will...
  • JobPath Programme
    72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the contracts with JobPath providers will be extended; the date on which the current contracts expire; if a value for money...
  • Tax Forms
    74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Med 2 form needs a signature from the spouse of the claimant; the...
  • Carer's Allowance Delays
    75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she has taken to address significant delays being experienced with carer's allowance applications; and if she will...
  • Rural Social Scheme Eligibility
    76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend the conditions pertaining to the rural social scheme, with particular reference to the need to remove the...
  • Legislative Process
    77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the stage at which the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 is; if concerns regarding defined benefit...
  • Widow's Pension Eligibility
    78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she plans to take to facilitate the award of widow or widower's pension in respect of persons married here following...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Payments
    80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address delays affecting benefit and allowance payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52800/18]
  • Social Welfare Overpayments
    81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of money recouped since her Department began recovering moneys that were overpaid to a person from the estate of...
  • Illness Benefit Costs
    82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the decision by many general practitioner practices to charge persons who are in receipt of illness benefit for...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Data
    83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of self-employed persons that have qualified for the invalidity pension; the date on which jobseeker's benefit will...
  • JobPath Programme
    84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the increase in sanctions and penalties taken against jobseekers is due to the interaction of the JobPath providers; and if...
  • Pensions Legislation
    85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her plans for legislative changes in pension law; when amendments will be tabled to the Social Welfare, Pensions...

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