John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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182. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer’s allowance will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if the application will be expedited. [10736/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. An increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people.

To qualify the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing full-time care and attention and must show that the care recipient requires full-time care and attention.

One of the conditions for CARB is that one must have been employed in remunerative employment for not less than 16 hours per week/32 hours per fortnight and for at least 8 weeks, whether consecutive or not, in the 26 week period prior to commencing caring/leaving employment to provide full time care.

The person concerned applied for CARB on 25 Nov 2020. The claim was disallowed as she failed to provide information requested by this Department on the 2 Dec 2020.

The person concerned was notified on 12 Jan 2021 of this decision, the reasons for it and of her right of review and appeal.

A review request was received on 14 Jan 2021. The Department has requested further information.

A decision will be made on her application as soon as the Department has all the required information.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.