Written answers

Wednesday, 3 February 2021

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pension appeal will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4998/21]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if paid social insurance contributions will be awarded to recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will...
  • Carer's Allowance
    399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending carer’s allowance to be available to care recipients of dependent personality disorder...
  • Residential Tenancies Board
    400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of referrals from the Residential Tenancies Board to the Money Advice & Budgeting Service, MABS, dedicated...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of childcare workers who are in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment on a weekly basis from 21 December...
  • Carer's Allowance
    402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Disability Allowance
    404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a support allowance payment for those who are already in receipt of a payment from her Department and...
  • Fuel Allowance
    407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the terms of payment for the fuel allowance will be extended in 2021 given the recent cold weather and the difficult...
  • Youth Unemployment
    408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the budget allocation for the youth employment support scheme in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
  • Disability Allowance
    409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5255/21]
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance
    414. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5261/21]
  • Parental Leave
    415. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the ongoing engagement she has had with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to progress a...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to reintroducing the mortgage interest supplement for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis to...
  • Social Welfare Code
    417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an emergency supplementary social welfare payment can issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a temporary change in the conditions for participants on community employment schemes by granting an...
  • Carer's Allowance
    419. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long to have an appeal for a carer’s allowance finalised. [5391/21]
  • State Pensions
    421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status in respect of the payment of a State pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Personal Public Service Numbers
    423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for a PPS number in 2020; the number approved and processed; the number refused; the...
  • Disability Allowance
    424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be awarded credit contributions for the period they have been a qualified...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of social protection applications by persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Household Benefits Scheme
    426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the increased cost to recipients of the household benefits package in relation to the electricity price increase which came...
  • Illness Benefit
    427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if receipt of Covid-19 enhanced illness benefit is accrued as part of standard illness benefit allowance; and if she will...
  • Fuel Allowance
    428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for the fuel allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which the Social Welfare Appeals Office began oral hearings by telephone and online; the number of oral hearings...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has examined the introduction of an appeals process for the pandemic unemployment benefit; and if she will...
  • Social Welfare Payments Administration
    433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department provides written decisions to claimants in which a payment they have been receiving has been suspended....
  • Aviation Industry
    434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has sought to implement additional income supports for those working in the aviation sector (details supplied); and if...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance
    435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a domiciliary care allowance claim by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [5762/21]
  • Social Welfare Payments Administration
    437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which the processing of various applications for social welfare payments continues to be in line with best...
  • Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
    439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which waiting times for payments in respect of means-tested applications compare with contribution-related...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which emergency access to a payment is available to persons in challenging circumstances with particular...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the appropriate level of pandemic unemployment payment continues to remain available to qualified...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the availability of exceptional needs payments in order to alleviate exceptional needs situations that...
  • Social Welfare Application Forms
    443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a facility can be found and arranged to expedite oral hearings online or otherwise; and if she will make a statement on...
  • State Pension (Contributory)
    444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the State pension (contributory) awaiting decision; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Social Welfare Code
    445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which due process and natural justice remains paramount in the context of dealing with social welfare...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare appeals determined on a weekly basis; the number of appeals that arise each week; and if she...
  • Disability Allowance
    447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will...
  • Widow's Pension
    448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a case (details supplied). [5811/21]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment beyond 31 March; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Budgets
    450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of the budget for her Department to meet increased demand...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payment rates for all participant workers of the community schemes; if she is considering increasing the rates of pay for...
  • Household Benefits Scheme
    452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for the household package scheme. [5886/21]
  • Community Employment Schemes
    453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an extension can be granted to a person (details supplied) on a community employment scheme; and if she will make a...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if self-employed persons will receive PRSI credits while in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will...
  • Personal Public Service Numbers
    455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a PPSN application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6009/21]
  • Community Employment Schemes
    456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the duration of community employment schemes due to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the...

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