Written answers
				Thursday, 6 July 2023
  				
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
				 
  - Social Welfare Appeals 
 265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can confirm the duration it takes to receive a decision from the Appeals Office regarding applications for carer's...
- Social Welfare Benefits 
 266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update in respect of a carer's allowance payment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
- Departmental Websites 
 272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for her Department’s websites expired for...
- Enterprise Support Services 
 273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any additional supports will be provided to employees of rehab enterprises, many of whom have disabilities if they lose...
- Social Welfare Payments 
 274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which oral hearings in respect of appeals against disallowance for various payments are up to date; the number...
- State Pensions 
 275. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which self-employed or other contributions in respect of State pension applications to her Department have been...
- Social Welfare Payments 
 276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the waiting time for decision in respect of applications for various social welfare payments has been...
- Cost of Living Issues 
 277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which it continues to be possible to address particularly sensitive issues in respect of family income and the...
- Family Support Services 
 278. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which exceptional needs’ payments are available in cases where family income is insufficient to meet...
- State Pensions 
 279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of applications for the State pension (contributory) received in each of the past five years to date; the...
- Care Services 
 280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the carer's allowance has been improved to meet requirements of more persons; and if she will make a...
- Family Support Services 
 281. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the return of the funeral bereavement grant may be envisaged other than by way of an exceptional needs payment; and if...
- Social Welfare Payments 
 282. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which she and her office continue to ensure the making of a basic payment to applicants of social welfare...
- Social Welfare Benefits 
 285. 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 extent of any...
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