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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: Fuel Allowance is available to persons in receipt of long-term Social Welfare payments, who satisfy a means condition and who are living alone or who only with the persons who come within certain categories. Fuel Allowance is not payable where a household member is in receipt of certain non-qualifying payments from my Department. An application for Fuel Allowance was received from the...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 3rd...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence,...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: Primary weekly social welfare payments are intended to enable recipients to meet their basic day-to-day income needs. In addition to these primary payments, my Department also provides a range of other secondary payments, such as an Increase for a qualified adult (IQA) and the living alone increase (LAI). The LAI is paid to persons in receipt of a primary payment from my Department and who...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a monthly payment to the parents or guardians of children under 16 years of age. Child Benefit can also be claimed for children aged 16 and 17 and 18 if they are in full-time education or full-time training or have a disability and cannot support themselves. The table below outlines Child Benefit payable to children residing outside the state from 2018 to 2023, the country...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a monthly payment made to families with children up to the age of 16 years. The payment continues to be paid in respect of children until their 19th birthday where they are in full-time education or have a disability. Child Benefit is paid at €140 per month. Twins are paid at one and a half times the standard monthly rate for each child, that is, €210 per...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The Living Alone Increase (LAI) is a supplement of €22 per week to persons who are in receipt of a primary social protection payment who are living alone. The person concerned applied for the LAI on 19 August 2023. They were notified on 2 September 2023 that they were not eligible 3for this increase as they did not reside alone. I have arranged for a form to issue to the person...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that there is no record of a Disability Allowance appeal by the person concerned...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: ...of Budget 2025, I was delighted to announce a number of measures in relation to the Fuel Allowance payment. These included: €300 once-off payment to all households receiving Fuel Allowance in November 2024. Carer’s Allowance will become a qualifying payment for Fuel Allowance from January 2025, subject to meeting all criteria of the Fuel Allowance scheme, including...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The main income supports to carers provided by my department are Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the Carer’s Support Grant. Spending on these payments is expected to amount to over €1.7 billion this year. The Carer’s Allowance is the main scheme by which the Department provides income support to carers in the community....
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: ...the impact of energy poverty. The Government is committed to protecting vulnerable households from the impact of energy costs through a combination of financial supports, energy efficiency awareness initiatives and investment in programmes to improve the energy efficiency of the housing stock. The supports provided by the Government are cross Departmental and, in this regard, my...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The person concerned reached pension age on 24 July 2022. To date my department has not received an application for state pension (contributory). The person concerned was in receipt of the carers allowance and a qualified adult payment on their late partner's state pension (contributory). Both payments have now ceased. Under current eligibility conditions, an individual must have 520...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision-making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence,...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: ...2019. An application for state pension (contributory) (SPC) was received from them in April 2020. In general, public servants who joined prior to 6 April 1995 paid modified contributions which are not reckonable for the standard state pension (contributory). However, such employees generally have an occupational pension, the level of which is related to a number of factors, including...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered on the 30th September...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: ...an estimated cost of €382 million in 2024. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. Only one allowance is paid per household. The criteria for Fuel Allowance are framed in order to direct the limited resources available to my Department in as targeted a manner as possible. To qualify for the Fuel Allowance payment, a person must...
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: ...into our town centres. TCF supports the Our Rural Future vision for a thriving rural Ireland by setting out a framework to facilitate and resource the regeneration of Irish towns to ensure they are vibrant, viable places to live, work, invest in, and visit. In December 2021, I announced €2.6 million in funding to support the development of 26 TCF Plans. These community-based plans...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: ...to householders who have been impacted and who do not have insurance to cover such events. The Minister, Deputy Burke, also brought a memorandum to the Cabinet on supports for businesses. Those are the supports we are putting in place. The Deputy is right that a scheme is in place. I understand it is quite complicated in Bantry because the water came up from under the ground into the...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2025 (8 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: ...services, called EmployAbility, to provide both pre-employment and in-employment support and assistance for disabled people and a recruitment and job matching service for employers. There are 23 of these contracted providers across the country. Early Engagement is targeted at recipients of a disability payment. It involves the Public Employment Service actively engaging with people with...