Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time to process applications for and award a carer’s allowance by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5895/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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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.

There are no delays with processing CA claims at present. The target processing time for CA is to process 75% of new claims within 11 weeks. At the end of December 2021, 94% of applications were completed within the expected timeframe. The average time taken to award a CA claim is 4 weeks.

The requested data on the processing times for CA applications broken down by county is not collated by the Department.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time to process applications for and award a carer’s benefit by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5896/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a PRSI based payment, made to persons who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to provide full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. It is payable for a maximum of 104 weeks for each person being cared for.

There are no delays with processing CARB claims at present. The target processing time for CARB is to process 90% of new claims within 12 weeks and applications are processed within the expected timeframe. The average time taken to award a CARB claim is 4 weeks.

The requested data on the processing times for CARB applications broken down by county is not collated by the Department.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time to process applications for and award a disability allowance by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5897/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Disability allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance for people with a disability aged between 16 and 66 with a disability which is expected to last for at least one year and who satisfy the medical condition and the means test and who are habitually resident in Ireland.

There is no delay with processing DA claims at present. The target processing time for DA is to process 75% of new claims within 10 weeks. At the end of December 2021, 94% of applications were completed within the expected timeframe. The average time taken to award a DA claim was 6 weeks.

The requested data on the processing times for DA applications broken down by county is not collated by the Department.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications, grants and refusals for the carer’s allowance, carer’s benefit and disability allowance in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5898/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The following table provides a breakdown by year of applications received, awarded, cleared and refused for Carer's Allowance, Carer's Benefit and Disability Allowance between 1st January 2018 and 31st December 2021.

Carer’s Allowance

Carer’s Benefit

Disability Allowance

The requested data broken down by county is not available.

I hope this clarifies the position for the Deputy.