Woods, Michael J.

Wednesday, 27 January 1988

Dáil Eireann Debate
Vol. 377 No. 1

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Written Answers. - Social Welfare Benefit.

Allegations of abuse of the unmarried mother's allowance scheme by the person concerned have already been received and investigated by the Department. The appropriate action to be taken in her case is...More Button

Written Answers. - Unemployment Register Statistics.

It is proposed to take Questions Nos. 141 and 142 together. I assume that the first question raised by the Deputy relates to those who left the live register arising from the national Jobsearch progra...More Button

Written Answers. - Invalidity Pension.

Invalidity pension is payable to insured persons who satisfy the contribution conditions and who are permanently incapable of work. The person concerned has been in receipt of disability benefit since...More Button

Written Answers. - Social Welfare Statistics.

The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following table: Social Welfare Recipients and their Dependants as a Percentage of the Population, 1976-1987More Button

Written Answers. - Self-Employed Statistics.

The detailed information requested by the Deputy is not available. However as indicated by the National Pensions Board in its recent report non-contributory pensions are payable mainly to self-employe...More Button

In the context of its report on the extension of social insurance to the self-employed the National Pensions Board estimated that the number of self-employed persons reaching pensionable age (66 years...More Button

An outline of the extension of the scheme of social insurance to the self-employed is being announced by the Minister for Finance in his budget Statement and statutory authority setting out the detail...More Button

Written Answers. - Social Welfare Entitlements Equalisation.

Proposals from the EC Commission for the application of equal treatment between men and women in areas of social security not covered by previous directives in this area are at present under discussio...More Button

Written Answers. - Maynooth (Kildare) Employment Office.

The Department's office in Maynooth is run by a branch manager who provides office accommodation and staffing under contract. The growth in the number of unemployed claimants has undoubtedly placed co...More Button

Written Answers. - Unemployment Assistance.

Entitlement to unemployment assistance is dependent on a claimant being the holder of a qualification certificate and to obtain such a certificate a claimant must satisfy certain conditions including...More Button

Written Answers. - Family Income Supplement Scheme.

The family income supplement scheme is designed to provide cash support for employees with families who are on low earnings. In many cases workers may be worse off or only marginally better off than ...More Button

Written Answers. - Social Welfare Benefits.

A deciding officer decided on 1 April 1987 that the person concerned was not entitled to an old age pension as her means had not been fully disclosed. The applicant and her husband failed to supply t...More Button

The legislative basis for the assessment of means for unemployment assistance purposes is contained in section 146 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981, as amended by section 13 of the Soci...More Button

Following investigation the unemployment assistance claim of the person concerned was disallowed on the grounds that, by failing to furnish details of his means, he failed to show that his means did n...More Button

Written Answers. - Farm Annuities Assessment.

The legislative basis for the assessment of means in unemployment assistance cases is provided for in section 146 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981, as amended by section 13 of the Socia...More Button

Written Answers. - Social Welfare Benefits.

The person concerned only submitted medical evidence of incapacity to the Department on 12 May 1987 in respect of an incapacity which was stated to have commenced on 16 December 1986. The regulations ...More Button

The person concerned has received disability benefit in respect of claims from 21 August 1972 to 1 July 1978, from 3 April 1979 to 15 August 1981 and since 9 September 1981 to date (apart from the per...More Button


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