Written answers
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Rates
99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of jobseekers’ payment claimants that have had reduced rates applied to them in 2023, 2024 and 2025 to... - Social Welfare Eligibility
100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that persons in receipt of a widow/widower’s pension and under 70 are not entitled to free travel for a... - Social Welfare Code
101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of the new bereaved partners contributory pension can also claim an illness benefit, or any other... - Pension Provisions
102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify when a person will stop receiving their widow's pension under the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partners and... - Social Welfare Appeals
104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person is unhappy with a section 318 review by the Chief Appeals Officer, the next course of action for the person; and... - Social Welfare Eligibility
105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the current policy whereby domiciliary care allowance ceases at age 16, requiring families to apply for... - Social Welfare Code
107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans to reform the transition process from domiciliary care allowance to disability allowance, with a view to reducing... - Social Welfare Eligibility
108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families who lose all State support when their child turns 16 and domiciliary care allowance ends, due to not... - Social Welfare Benefits
110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on an application for carers allowance (details supplied); if he will expedite same; and if he... - Social Welfare Eligibility
111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department plans to increase the income threshold for the fuel allowance payment; if not, if he will consider same;... - Social Welfare Rates
112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department plans to increase the rate of for the living alone allowance payment; if not, if he will consider same; and...
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