department of social and family affairs annual report 2006 - Welfare.ie

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Appendix 3: Expenditure on Social Welfare by Payment Type (continued) 2005 2006 Type of Payment Provisional Change 000 000 % Jobseeker’s Benefit 418,085 454,742 8.8% Jobseeker’s Allowance 667,483 768,717 15.2% Total Unemployment Supports 1,085,568 1,223,459 12.7% Family Income Supplement 72,152 107,126 48.5% Employment Support Services 106,613 115,541 8.4% Farm Assist 67,284 71,085 5.6% Total Employment Supports 246,049 293,752 19.4% Supplementary Welfare Allowance 624,029 635,195 1.8% Total Supplementary Welfare Allowance 624,029 635,195 1.8% Treatment Benefits 65,497 95,020 45.1% Rent Allowance 855 839 -1.9% Free Schemes 383,429 444,429 15.9% Miscellaneous 89,751 102,828 14.6% Equal Treatment - Insurance payments - - - Equal Treatment- Assistance payments - - - Redundancy and Insolvency (1) 150,348 172,294 14.6% Total Miscellaneous Payments and Grants 689,880 815,410 18.2% Administration - Insurance Schemes 202,580 221,684 9.4% Administration - Assistance Schemes 256,331 295,568 15.3% Total Administration 458,911 517,252 12.7% Grand Total 12,169,669 13,590,652 11.7% (1) These schemes are administered by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. annual report 2006 85
APPENDIX 4: LEGISLATION ENACTED IN 2006 The Act also provides for a number of amendments to the Pensions Act 1990 in relation to Occupational Pensions. Legislation Enacted in 2006 The Department’s Legislation Programme for 2006 encompassed the enactment of two pieces of primary legislation, that is: This Act further contains provision for amendments to a number of other Acts, including the Carer’s Leave Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Taxes Consolidation Act and the Combat Poverty Agency Act. - the Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006, and - the Social Welfare Act 2006. SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2006 (No. 36 of 2006 enacted 19 December 2006) appendices The Programme also entailed the promulgation of 26 Statutory Instruments. Details of the primary and secondary legislation are as follows: SOCIAL WELFARE LAW REFORM AND PENSIONS ACT 2006 (No. 8 of 2006 enacted 24 March 2006) This Act provides for a number of measures announced in Budget 2006, including increases in Child Benefit and the Respite Care Grant, raising the income threshold for the One-Parent Family Payment, the extension of the duration of Carer’s Benefit, and an improvement in the means test applicable to the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme. It also provides for the establishment of a standard non-contributory support payment for persons aged over 66 years - the State Pension (Non-Contributory) and the automatic transfer to Old Age (Contributory) Pension for recipients of Invalidity Pension or Retirement Pension on reaching age 66. The Act further provides for the amendment of the titles of some schemes operated under social welfare legislation, and for a number of amendments to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005. The Act contains the legislative basis for the payment of the Early Childcare Supplement as announced in Budget 2006, and to exempt this payment from assessment as taxable income. The Act provides for the Budget 2007 increases in the rates of social insurance and social assistance payments and improvements in Family Income Supplement, Maternity and Adoptive Benefit, Death Benefit Funeral Expenses Grant, Bereavement Grant, Widowed Parent Grant, State Pension (Non-Contributory) and Disability Allowance schemes. It also provides for raising the weekly earnings limit at which PRSI becomes payable, an increase in the income ceiling above which PRSI contributions are not payable by employed or optional contributors, as announced in the Budget, in addition to changes to the Health Contributions Act 1979 to provide for an increase in the amount of contributions payable for earnings over a certain threshold. It also provides for an increase in the weekly and annual exemption thresholds for the Health Contribution Levy. S.I. 70 of 2006 OCCUPATIONAL PENSION SCHEMES (REVALUATION) REGULATIONS, 2006 Section 33 of the Pensions Act, 1990 (as amended by Section 21 of the Pensions (Amendment) Act, 2002), provides that the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, after consultation with the Minister for Finance, shall, in respect of each revaluation year, make Regulations specifying the percentage which shall determine the amount by which the preserved benefit is to be increased by in that year. This Regulation provides for a revaluation percentage of 2.5% for 2005. 86
Page 1 and 2:
department of social and family aff
Page 3 and 4:
annual report 2006 0
Page 5 and 6:
Introduction from the Secretary-Gen
Page 7 and 8:
the department - its business and o
Page 9 and 10:
Statutory Agencies There are five o
Page 11 and 12:
2006 in review 2006 - year in revie
Page 13 and 14:
- to introduce a Personal Advocacy
Page 15 and 16:
2006 - year in review 14
Page 17 and 18:
the department’s goals > Goal 1:
Page 19 and 20:
goal 1: retired and older people To
Page 21 and 22:
Government is committed to respondi
Page 23 and 24:
goal 1: retired and older people 22
Page 25 and 26:
goal 2: people of working age To pr
Page 27 and 28:
As part of Budget 2006, periods spe
Page 29 and 30:
This project has been developed and
Page 31 and 32:
Initiatives introduced in 2006 unde
Page 33 and 34:
Appendix to Chapter 5 > Development
Page 35 and 36: Goal 2: people of working age 34
Page 37 and 38: Goal 3: children To ensure the well
Page 39 and 40: Ending Child Poverty Special Initia
Page 41 and 42: goal 4: coverage, access and entitl
Page 45 and 46: OBJECTIVE 7 Provide a satisfactory
Page 49 and 50: f) Debt Recovery Considerable effor
Page 53 and 54: goal 5: poverty, social inclusion a
Page 59 and 60: • An emphasis on practical, budg
Page 63 and 64: goal 6: the department and its staf
Page 67 and 68: formal training courses, SDU contin
Page 69 and 70: Governance and Management of Resour
Page 73 and 74: improvement programme. This include
Page 75 and 76: submissions from representative gro
Page 77 and 78: appendices Appendix 1: Status Repor
Page 79 and 80: Appendix 2: Summary Of DSFA Budget
Page 81 and 82: Appendix 2: Summary of DSFA Budget
Page 83 and 84: Appendix 2: Summary of DSFA Budget
Page 85: Appendix 3: Expenditure on Social W
Page 89 and 90: S.I. 169 of 2006 SOCIAL WELFARE LAW
Page 91 and 92: appendices These Regulations retain
Page 93 and 94: appendices for the purposes of impl
Page 95 and 96: S.I. No. 497 of 2006 SOCIAL WELFARE
Page 97 and 98: Regulations currently provide that
Page 99 and 100: (b) refrain from behaviour which is
Page 101 and 102: Improving our telephone answering s
Page 103 and 104: appendices APPENDIX 6: PUBLIC PROCU
Page 105 and 106: Appendix 7: Scheme Name Changes In
Page 107 and 108: appendices 106
Page 109 and 110: Appendix 10: Ministers In Charge Of
show all

department of social and family affairs annual report 2006 - Welfare.ie

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?