Department of Social Protection
FOI Requests — 1,804 records (page 29 of 37)
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
the various state funded allowances and payments.
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
1. The number of requests made to the Department from Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection for Additional Needs Payments related to vehicular repair and/or maintenance. 2. How many requests from Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection for Additional Needs Payments related to vehicular repair and/or maintenance that the Department approved. 3. The number of requests from Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection for Additional Needs Payments related to vehicular repair and/or maintenance that the Department rejected. 4. The total amount paid out by the Department to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection for Additional Needs Payment related to vehicular repair and/or maintenance.
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
received.
- Received —Decided —DDepartment of Social Protection
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
*On 11 January 2021, a FOI request was received requesting any correspondence between the Department and Revenue on the subject of the operation of the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme and Jobseekers Benefit from 1 March 2020 to date; Any correspondence between the Department and Aer Lingus on the matters of Jobseekers Benefit, Short Time Work Support or Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme from 1 March 2020 to date. The request also sought personal records. In Quarter 1 of 2021, the Department received 22 such requests. All these requests were Part-Granted using Section 36 (Commercially Sensitive Information) and Section 37 (Personal Information). With the exception of the original request [Ref. 16652], these requests are not shown in this Log.
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
*On 11 January 2021, a FOI request was received requesting any correspondence between the Department and Revenue on the subject of the operation of the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme and Jobseekers Benefit from 1 March 2020 to date; Any correspondence between the Department and Aer Lingus on the matters of Jobseekers Benefit, Short Time Work Support or Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme from 1 March 2020 to date. The request also sought personal records. In Quarter 1 of 2021, the Department received 22 such requests, followed by 4 in Quarter 2 of 2021. All these requests were Part-Granted using Section 36 (Commercially Sensitive Information) and Section 37 (Personal Information). With the exception of the first request in Quarter 2 [Ref. 17174], these requests are not shown in this Log.
- Received 2 July 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
•Statutory Instrument No. 411 of 2014 and the Explanatory Note of same S.I.
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
All correspondence from 1 March 2021 to date, between the Department and
- Received 6 July 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
representatives of Danske Bank in relation to payments made to overseas pension
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
individuals, (excluding companies, business interest groups, Oireachtas members,
- Received 9 July 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
Public Officials, Journalists), which didn’t include information on the reduced rate fee
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
relation to the following measure (announced as part of Budget 2020):
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
“Eligibility for the Household Benefits package to be broadened for people under 70
- Received 12 July 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
that will allow for another adult to reside in the household.”
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
The number of complaints and the categorisation of these complaints, made against
- Received 7 July 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
social welfare staff and Intreo Centres in the years 2016, 2017,2018, 2019, 2020 and
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
Any correspondence between the Department and Revenue on the subject of the operation of the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme and Jobseekers Benefit between
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
1 March 2020 and 13 July 2021.
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
Any correspondence between the Department and Aer Lingus on the matters of
- Received 19 July 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
Jobseekers Benefit, Short-time Work Support, or Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
Education about the policy implications of having large numbers of students on the
- Received 19 July 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
pandemic unemployment payment, from 1 September 2020 to present.
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
• All details on the lotto system or algorithm removed by your Department to arrange referral of unemployed to the Seetec/Jobpath programme.
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
• All information/records available in relation to the required qualification/s,
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
background and experience of employment advisors (as well as any optional or
- Received 23 July 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
mandatory training provided) whom I understand are contracted by the Department
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
• The breakdown by gender of applicants born prior to 1 September 1946 who were
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
refused any State Pension (Contributory) personal payments due to lack of credits.
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
• Details (broken down by gender and rate band) of those in receipt of PRC as a result of being eligible for (a) the Homemaker’s Scheme and (b) the HomeCaring
- Received 29 July 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
Periods Scheme.
- Received 29 July 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
All data on deaths from 1st of January 2020 to July 2021.
- Received 30 July 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
List of all employers that have signed up to take part in the Work Placement
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
1. The number of allegations of social welfare fraud that were received by the Department in each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. 2. The number of allegations sent forward for investigation per year. 3. The number of these allegations that were dismissed with no action taken per year.
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
4. The number of allegations that, upon investigation, were found to be false or have no supporting evidence per year. 5. The number of allegations that resulted in a positive finding that a fraud had taken place per year.
- Received 3 August 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
6. The number of cases in each year where overpayments were detected and found
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
- Received 11 August 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
time period of 20/10/2020 – 30/03/2021.
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
- Received 13 August 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
documentation, memos held by the Department regarding an event hosted by
- Received —Decided —Department of Social Protection
- Received 20 August 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
A copy of the Collective Redundancy Notification submitted to the Minister by
- Received 24 August 2021Decided —Department of Social Protection
• Please provide the information in tabular form, to include a breakdown of the