Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 October 2011
254 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive their arrears of carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29899/11]
View answerThe person concerned has been awarded carer's allowance. Arrears of allowance due from the date of his application for carer's allowance, less any other payment made to him for the intervening period, will issue shortly.
255 Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding entitlements in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29921/11]
View answerThe community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, formally transferred to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. Apart from a number of excluded categories, anyone in the State who satisfies a habitual residency condition and a means test, who has registered for employment, unless they have a physical or mental disability, and can prove unemployment may qualify for a weekly payment of supplementary welfare allowance (SWA).
Departmental records show that there are currently no social welfare claims pending for the person concerned. Should the person concerned wish to be considered for assistance from the Department he may make an application for jobseeker's allowance in his designated social welfare local office in Greendale Road, Kilbarrack, Dublin 5. Additionally he may wish to make an application for assistance under the SWA scheme. Applications for SWA can be made to the Department's designated representatives in the local health centre in Foxfield Crescent, Kilbarrack, Dublin 5. Full details in relation to the assistance available can be obtained on the Department's website on www.welfare.ie.
