Written answers
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Rates
427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to calls by an organisation (details supplied) to raise all core social protection rates by... - Social Welfare Benefits
428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer’s benefit payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be extended and... - State Pensions
429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will provide a record of the insurance contributions made by a person (details supplied); the way that the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that illness benefit recipients are excluded from the cost-of-living double payment, particularly those who are on... - Education and Training Provision
432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the training and progression programme for young adults with additional needs can be maintained and remain operational;... - Departmental Staff
433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons working in her Department’s press office, communications team and social media team in tabular... - State Pensions
434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the employment income disregards for persons in receipt of non-contributory widow's pension;... - Social Welfare Code
435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that persons who have paid a certain contribution (details supplied) with limited income cannot qualify for the... - Social Welfare Payments
436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52811/22] - Social Welfare Code
437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the assistance that her Department can provide a person (details supplied). [52812/22] - State Pensions
438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she and her Department have plans to revert the contribution eligibility criteria for the State pension (contributory) to... - Social Welfare Code
439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the extra benefits announced in Budget 2023 for people on disability allowance will be available to those who have come... - State Pensions
440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details on the way in which the total contribution approach for calculating pensions will be phased in... - Social Welfare Eligibility
441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52898/22] - Community Welfare Services
443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans for community welfare services in south Donegal given that there is currently a post vacant and there are a number... - Social Welfare Code
444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any assistance towards electricity and fuel bills is available to a person (details supplied) who is currently in receipt... - State Pensions
445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the refusal of a pension (non-contributory) will be examined for a person (details supplied). [52948/22] - Social Welfare Code
446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any further assistance is available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52950/22] - State Pensions
447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review an issue (details supplied) in relation to D stamp pensioners; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Code
448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that there is no supplementary welfare for persons on low income or who are in receipt of social welfare payments... - Fuel Prices
450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Benefits
451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider a decision in respect of eligibility for the disability allowance in cases in which the medical... - Social Welfare Offices
454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm that there has been no community welfare officer in the Tallaght Intreo office since 2020; and if not,... - Fuel Poverty
455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the increase to the living alone allowance is calculable income when qualifying for the fuel allowance. [53078/22] - Social Welfare Eligibility
456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on an appeal by a person (detail supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Transport Costs
458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she expects her Department to complete exploratory work regarding proposals from an organisation (details supplied); if... - Social Welfare Eligibility
460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who is in receipt of an occupational private pension and who is living alone can apply for the living alone... - Social Welfare Payments
462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the anomaly in the Budget 2023 proposals in which participants on community employment schemes will... - Personal Public Service Numbers
463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Pension Provisions
464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to change the regime in which persons who work past the age of 66 years can continue to claim the contributory... - Social Welfare Eligibility
465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 458 of 13 October 2022, the basis on which long-Covid does not constitute a prescribed... - Social Welfare Payments
468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the qualifying criteria for the fuel allowance in cases in which a person who is in receipt of a... - School Meals Programme
470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of 13 October 2022, 50745/22, if the review of the school meals programme includes... - Social Welfare Eligibility
471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who is resident in Ireland (details supplied) and is working for an English company and therefore, paying tax and... - Social Welfare Benefits
472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if foster parents receive a backdated child benefit payment when their foster child is six months under their care; and if... - Social Welfare Eligibility
473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if foster parents can apply for the back to school allowance for children in their care; and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Payments
475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will... - Social Welfare Eligibility
477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that illness benefit recipients are excluded from the autumn double payment and the Christmas bonus payment; if... - Community Welfare Services
479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will allocate more staff to the local community welfare offices to deal with the increased workload CWOs are... - Community Employment Schemes
480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the salaries for community employment supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Payments
481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will request a review into week pension rate for a person (details supplied) given that the weekly rate has recently... - Social Welfare Eligibility
482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will allow recipients of the old-age pension in cases in which a person is residing in the house with their parents to... - Cost of Living Issues
483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide clarification on whether partial capacity recipients will be in a position to claim the €500... - Social Welfare Payments
485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a payment to her Department by the UK DHSS for a person (details supplied) in... - Public Services Card
486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will arrange to have an appointment system put in place for a public service card procedures in view of the...
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