Written answers

Wednesday, 23 March 2022

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Social Welfare Payments
    109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if financial assistance will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork who will be accommodating six...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the refusal of pandemic unemployment payments to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when in-person assessments will resume for those applying for disablement benefit; the reason that these assessments have not...
  • Departmental Programmes
    113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons enrolled in the activation and family support programme; and the amount of funding allocated to the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on child benefit since 2017 by year ; the number of recipients of child benefit since 2017 by year; and the...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors who served in the role prior to 1 July 2008 are not...
  • Departmental Contracts
    117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which her Department can support workers (details supplied) who entered a 30-day collection redundancy period...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects an increase in the demand for social welfare payments in 2022; if she is satisfied that these...
  • State Pensions
    121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which satisfactory provision continues to be made for those retiring at 65 years of age; the recent progress in...
  • Youth Unemployment
    122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she and her Department continue to monitor youth unemployment levels; the extent to which such levels...
  • State Pensions
    123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects to be in a position to address the pensions issue for persons that have gaps in their...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    124. 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...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of decisions to refuse for jobseeker’s allowance, illness benefit and disability that have been overturned...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the Departmental regulations or legislation which govern and guide deciding officers when assessing medical evidence...
  • Social Welfare Code
    131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps taken by her Department to ensure equity and fairness for all social welfare applicants with particular reference...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of invalidity pension applications received by her Department since 2012 to date; the number of applications...
  • State Pensions
    134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons currently in receipt of the State (contributory) pension; the extent to which this number is...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of recipients of child benefit payments; the extent to which this has fluctuated over the past two years and...
  • Departmental Contracts
    137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of contracts that her Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial supports that are available for a family that is in inappropriate accommodation which it owns and which is no...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) was refused the benefit payment for persons over 65 years of age; and if she will...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to offset the rising cost of living for persons on fixed incomes particularly pensions and welfare payments; and if...
  • Social Insurance
    141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has or will pay full PRSI contributions for all those who were in receipt of the pandemic unemployment...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to address the barriers for individuals applying for parent’s benefit including digital...

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