{"id":19847,"date":"2022-10-31T21:17:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T21:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/?p=19847"},"modified":"2024-04-08T19:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T19:49:06","slug":"farm-fishing-supports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm &#038; Fishing Supports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_63 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" 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title=\"Farm Assist\">Farm Assist<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/#Rural_Social_Scheme\" title=\"Rural \u00a0Social Scheme.\">Rural \u00a0Social Scheme.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/#Services_Provided\" title=\"Services Provided\">Services Provided<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/#Conditions\" title=\"Conditions\">Conditions<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/#Community_Work_Placement_Initiative\" title=\"Community Work Placement Initiative\">Community Work Placement Initiative<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/#Developments\" title=\"Developments\">Developments<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/2\/#SWCA_2005\" title=\"SWCA 2005\">SWCA 2005<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/2\/#Farm_Assist_ss_213-218\" title=\"Farm Assist (ss. 213-218)\">Farm Assist (ss. 213-218)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/2\/#Interpretation\" title=\"Interpretation.\">Interpretation.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/2\/#Entitlement_to_allowance\" title=\"Entitlement to allowance.\">Entitlement to allowance.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/2\/#Rate_of_allowance_including_increases_for_qualified_adult_and_qualified_children\" title=\"Rate of allowance (including increases for qualified adult and qualified children).\">Rate of allowance (including increases for qualified adult and qualified children).<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/2\/#Amount_of_increases_payable_in_respect_of_qualified_child_in_certain_cases\" title=\"Amount of increases payable in respect of qualified child in certain cases.\">Amount of increases payable in respect of qualified child in certain cases.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/2\/#Total_amount_payable_to_a_couple\" title=\"Total amount payable to a couple.\">Total amount payable to a couple.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/farm-fishing-supports\/2\/#Disqualifications\" title=\"Disqualifications.\">Disqualifications.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Farm_Assist\"><\/span>Farm Assist<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Farm Assist is a means tested payment for low income farmers.\u00a0 The person must be a farmer between the ages of 18 and 66 and satisfy a means test.\u00a0 A farmer is a person engaged in farming in the state including commonage.\u00a0 The land must be owned or leased.\u00a0 Husbandry means working the land with a view to extracting traditional produce and includes afforestation and keeping poultry and livestock<\/p>\n<p>Farm Assist may be available in respect of land that is neither leased nor owned where it does not to one part of a larger holding.\u00a0 This is applicable where there are one or more persons entitled to a co-ownership share in farmland.<\/p>\n<p>The claimant must be engaged in farming.\u00a0 He need not be actively farming the whole of the original unit and part may be let. There is no minimum requirement, but the amount of land must reasonably be such that it can be considered a farm.<\/p>\n<p>There is a special means test for Farm Assist.\u00a0 Unlike most other means tests, only 70 percent of the additional earnings are taken into account as means. There are disregards in respect of children.<\/p>\n<p>It is payable at a flat rate with increments for qualified adults and qualified children.\u00a0 Where both members of the household receive it, it is limited to the maximum rate that would have been payable to an individual plus qualified adult.<\/p>\n<p>There were disqualification broadly similar to those in respect of unemployment assistance.\u00a0 There were limited exceptions.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Rural_Social_Scheme\"><\/span>Rural \u00a0Social Scheme.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The Rural \u00a0Social Scheme permits farmers and fishermen who are unable to earn an adequate \u00a0living from farms holding or fishing to earn supplementary income.\u00a0 The applicants must be in receipt of Farm or Fish Assist or have herd number and be in receipt of jobseekers allowance, disability allowance, one parent family payment or widowers\u2019 contributory or non-contributory pension or be adult dependent of a non-contributory state pensioner who is are under 66.<\/p>\n<p>A person in receipt of the above but does not have a Farm Assist or Fish Assist may use a brother or sister or parent\u2019s herd number.<\/p>\n<p>The works done must be of benefit to the community.\u00a0 They may include a range of works including environmental service, caring services, general community services, heritage and cultural services and educational services.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Services_Provided\"><\/span>Services Provided<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Environmental services may include energy conservation work in community buildings or low-income houses, renovation of community and sporting facilities, development, regeneration and enhancement of community spaces, neighbourhood and village and country enhancement including clean up, recycling and repair of equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Caring services may include social care, personal aid for persons with ill health and restricted mobility, services for children in cr\u00e8ches and childcare, preparation of meals for older people, visitation, general call and befriending programs for older people and those with mental health issues, confined to home.<\/p>\n<p>General community services include caretaking, supervising of community buildings, administration, web design, social media, production of newsletters, community research and evaluation including genealogy, event management promotion and administration, retail services in charity and community settings, promotion and support for volunteering.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage and cultural services may include promotion of the Irish language and cultural activities, development and maintenance of walking, cycling and leisure trails, administration, marketing and promotion of local heritage sites and events, staffing of cultural tourism and heritage centres.<\/p>\n<p>Educational services may include early years and afterschool support for children and young people, services for children in cr\u00e8che and childcare settings, literacy, numeracy and related supports for adults or children with limited command of English or Irish, assistance with recreational opportunities including coaching, training, art and music classes, actions to develop and support the school completion program and related initiatives.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conditions\"><\/span>Conditions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Participants work 19.5 hours a week.\u00a0 The hours may be adopted to accommodate fishing and farming\u00a0 Payments are made direct to bank account.\u00a0 The amount payable depends on the circumstances. Entitlement to benefits is conditional upon the usual assessment procedures.\u00a0 Participants must meet the conditions attached to secondary benefits in order to continue to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>A farmer must show that he is actively farming.\u00a0 A herd number and single payment particulars must be furnished.<\/p>\n<p>A fisherman must be a self-employed fisherman or woman on a fishing boat entered on the \u00a0register of fishing boats, or a pot fishing license, a holder of commercial salmon fishing, eel fishing licence, aquaculture permit holder for shell fishing.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases the rate is the equivalent of the existing payment with a \u20ac20 top-up.\u00a0 Class A PRSI contributions are paid on behalf of RSS participants.\u00a0 They are exempt from USC.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme is administered locally by a local RSS implementing body.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Community_Work_Placement_Initiative\"><\/span>Community Work Placement Initiative<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Tus is the community \u00a0work placement initiative.\u00a0 It is designed to assist work readiness.\u00a0 It provides short term opportunities for persons who are unemployed while provided community benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants must be unemployed for at least 12 months in receipt of jobseekers\u2019 payments.\u00a0 Participants are selected by the Department from those satisfying conditions.\u00a0 They will identify and contact persons who satisfy the criteria and offer them the opportunity to be considered for local placement.<\/p>\n<p>When persons agree they are referred to the local development company or Udaras na Gaeltachta in Gaeltacht regions for interview.\u00a0 The local development company and the Udaras maintain panels of persons for recruitment.\u00a0 The local development company considers suitability for the type of work concerned.<\/p>\n<p>All works and services for delivery to the community and voluntary sectors are potentially eligible.\u00a0 Works similar to those in the Rural Social Scheme and also wider categories of work.<\/p>\n<p>Participants are expected to work 19.5 hours a week.\u00a0 Payments are made directly.\u00a0 Class A PRSI is paid in respect of participants.\u00a0 They are exempt from Universal Social Charge.\u00a0 The placement is for a year. A person on the scheme cannot join it again for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Entitlement to secondary benefits is subject to the general assessment procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Community and voluntary associations are responsible for costs not covered by Tus.\u00a0 They are required to make a contribution.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Developments\"><\/span>Developments<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The 2012 Act increased the rate of assessment of self-employment income from farming and fishing from 85% to 100%, in the case of the Farm Assist, Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance, Pre-Retirement Allowance and Disability Allowance schemes. The 2012 Act provides for the abolition of the annual child related income disregards in respect of qualified children who normally reside with such claimants (currently \u20ac127 per year for each of the first two dependent children and \u20ac190.50 per year for each subsequent child). The changes take effect from the beginning of April 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 Act provides for the inclusion of a reference to the Green, Low- Carbon, Agri-Environment scheme (GLAS) operated by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the relevant Schedule to the Act in order to provide that income from this scheme shall be partially disregarded in assessing means for social assistance payments.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 Act provides for the reintroduction of the income disregards and tapering arrangements which applied to the Farm Assist scheme before Budget 2012. This measure came into effect from 8 March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 Act\u00a0 S. 20 provides for the expansion of the list of agri-environmental schemes (e.g. Glas) attracting the specific means disregard applicable to\u00a0jobseeker\u2019s allowance, farm assist and state pension (non-contributory).<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>SWCA 2005<\/h2>\n<p>Chapter 11<\/p>\n<h4>Farm Assist (ss. 213-218)<\/h4>\n<p>213.<\/p>\n<h4>Interpretation.<\/h4>\n<p>(1)In this Chapter and in Schedule 3 &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;farming&#8221; means farming farm land including commonage, which &#8211;<br \/>\n(a)is owned, and used for the purposes of husbandry,<br \/>\n(b)is leased, and used for the purposes of husbandry, or<br \/>\n(c)does not form part of a larger holding and is used for the purposes of husbandry, by the claimant<br \/>\n;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;farmer&#8221; means a person engaged in farming;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;husbandry&#8221; means the working of the land with the object of extracting the traditional produce of the land;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;weekly means&#8221; means, subject to Rule 1(1) of Part 2 of Schedule 3, the yearly means divided by 52 and the amount so calculated shall be rounded up to the nearest \u20ac1 where it is a multiple of 50 cent but not also a multiple of \u20ac1 and shall be rounded to the nearest \u20ac1 where it is not a multiple of 50 cent or \u20ac1.<\/p>\n<p>(2)For the purposes of this Chapter, means shall be calculated in accordance with the Rules contained in Part 2 of Schedule 3.<\/p>\n<p>214.<\/p>\n<h4>Entitlement to allowance.<\/h4>\n<p>(1)Subject to this Act and to regulations made under this Act, an allowance (in this Act referred to as &#8220;farm assist&#8221;) shall be payable to a farmer where &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>(a)he or she has attained the age of 18 years and is under pensionable age, and<\/p>\n<p>(b)his or her weekly means, subject to subsection (2), do not exceed the amount of farm assist (including any increases of farm assist) that would be payable to the farmer under this Chapter if he or she had no means.<\/p>\n<p>(2)Where the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of a claimant for farm assist is not the claimant&#8217;s qualified adult, or is a spouse in respect of whom an increase is payable by virtue of regulations made under section 297, the means of the claimant shall be taken to be one-half the means.<\/p>\n<p>(2)Subject to subsection (3), where the spouse of a claimant for farm assist is a spouse referred to in any of subparagraphs (iii) to (vii) of section 2(2) (a), the means of the claimant shall be taken to be one-half the means.<\/p>\n<p>(3)Notwithstanding subsection (2), where, in the 4 weeks immediately before the commencement of section 9 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007 a person was entitled to or in receipt of farm assist and the spouse of the claimant for farm assist is not the claimant&#8217;s qualified adult, or is a spouse in respect of whom an increase is payable by virtue of regulations made under section 297, the means of the claimant shall be taken to be one-half the means or the means calculated in accordance with subsection (2), whichever is the more favourable.<\/p>\n<p>(4)Where the means of a claimant are calculated at any time in accordance with subsection (3) and are subsequently calculated in accordance with subsection (2), subsection (3) shall no longer apply to the claimant.<\/p>\n<p>(5)Where for any period of not less than 4 consecutive weeks after the commencement of section 9 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007, a claimant whose means were calculated in accordance with subsection (3) ceases to be entitled to or in receipt of farm assist, subsection (2) shall apply to any subsequent claims.<\/p>\n<p>(6)Where the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of a claimant for farm assist is a spouse, civil partner or cohabitant referred to in Part 6, and is in receipt of a payment under Part 6, the means of the claimant shall be taken to be one-half the means.<\/p>\n<p>215.<\/p>\n<h4>Rate of allowance (including increases for qualified adult and qualified children).<\/h4>\n<p>(1)Subject to this Chapter, the rate (in this Chapter referred to as &#8220;the scheduled rate&#8221;) of farm assist shall be the weekly rate set out in column (2) at reference 11 in Part 1 of Schedule 4, increased by &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>(a)the amount set out in column (3) of that Part opposite that reference for any period during which the claimant or beneficiary has a qualified adult, subject to the restriction that, except where regulations otherwise provide, the claimant or beneficiary shall not be entitled for the same period to an increase of the allowance under this subparagraph in respect of more than one person, and<\/p>\n<p>(b)the appropriate amount set out &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>(i)in column (4) of that Part opposite that reference in respect of each qualified child who has not attained the age of 12 years who normally resides with the claimant or beneficiary, and<\/p>\n<p>(ii)in column (5) of that Part opposite that reference in respect of each qualified child who has attained the age of 12 years who normally resides with the claimant or beneficiary.<\/p>\n<p>(2)Farm assist shall be payable &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>(a)where the weekly means of the claimant or beneficiary are less than \u20ac1, at the scheduled rate,<\/p>\n<p>(b)where the weekly means are equal to \u20ac1, at the scheduled rate reduced by \u20ac1, and<\/p>\n<p>(c)where the weekly means exceed \u20ac1, at the scheduled rate, reduced by \u20ac1 for each amount (if any) of \u20ac1 by which those weekly means exceed \u20ac1 but, where the weekly means of the claimant or beneficiary are equal to or exceed the scheduled rate, no farm assist shall be payable.<\/p>\n<p>216.<\/p>\n<h4>Amount of increases payable in respect of qualified child in certain cases.<\/h4>\n<p>Any increase of farm assist payable under section 215(1) in respect of a qualified child who normally resides with the claimant or beneficiary and with the spouse of the claimant or beneficiary shall be payable at the rate of one-half of the appropriate amount in any case where the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of the claimant or beneficiary<\/p>\n<p>(a)is not a qualified adult, or<\/p>\n<p>(b)is a spouse, civil partner or cohabitant referred to in section 214(2),<\/p>\n<p>and section 215(1) shall be read and have effect accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>217.<\/p>\n<h4>Total amount payable to a couple.<\/h4>\n<p>(1)Where one of a couple is entitled to illness benefit, jobseeker\u2019s benefit, jobseeker\u2019s benefit (self-employed), injury benefit, disablement pension, State pension (contributory), State pension (non-contributory), State pension (transition) or invalidity pension and the other is entitled to farm assist, the total of the amount payable to them by way of that benefit or pension and farm assist (in this subsection referred to as &#8220;the relevant amount&#8221;) shall not exceed the total amount of benefit or pension, as the case may be, (including any increases thereof, where appropriate), or the total amount of farm assist (including any increases thereof, where appropriate), whichever is the greater (in this subsection referred to as &#8220;the greater amount&#8221;) that would be payable if only one of the couple were in receipt of benefit, pension or farm assist, as the case may be, and, if the relevant amount would but for this subsection exceed the greater amount, the amount of farm assist payable to the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant who is entitled to such farm assist shall be reduced by the amount of the excess.<\/p>\n<p>(2)Where one of a couple is entitled to jobseeker\u2019s allowance, pre-retirement allowance or farm assist and the other is entitled to farm assist, the total amount payable to them under this Act shall not exceed the amount which would be payable if only one of them was entitled to be paid jobseeker\u2019s allowance, pre-retirement allowance or farm assist, as the case may be, (including any increases thereof, where appropriate), and each of them shall be entitled to be paid one-half of the amount which would be payable to him or her if only one of the couple were in receipt of the assistance or allowance.<\/p>\n<p>(3)In this section &#8220;couple&#8221; means &#8211;<br \/>\n(a)a married couple who are living together,<br \/>\n(b)both civil partners of a civil partnership, who are living together, or<br \/>\n(c)both cohabitants.<\/p>\n<p>218.<\/p>\n<h4>Disqualifications.<\/h4>\n<p>(1)A farmer shall be disqualified for receiving farm assist while he or she is &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>(a)employed during any week under a scheme provided by the Minister and known as Community Employment,<\/p>\n<p>(b)employed during any week under a scheme provided by the Minister and known as the Rural Social Scheme,<\/p>\n<p>(c)participating in a scheme administered by the Minister and known as Back To Work Allowance, or<\/p>\n<p>(d)participating in a scheme administered by the Minister and known as Part-Time Job Incentive.<\/p>\n<p>(e)[deleted]<\/p>\n<p>(2)A farmer shall not be entitled to receive farm assist while attending a course of study, other than in the circumstances and subject to the conditions and for the periods that may be prescribed.<\/p>\n<p>(3)In subsections (2) and (4) &#8220;academic year&#8221;, &#8220;a course of study&#8221; and &#8220;institution of education&#8221; have the meanings given by section 148(2).<\/p>\n<p>(4)In this section, a farmer shall be regarded, subject to regulations made under subsection (2), as attending a course of study &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>(a)for 3 months immediately following the completion or the leaving by that person of second level education or the completion of the Leaving Certificate Examination of the Department of Education and Science (whichever is the later),<\/p>\n<p>(b)for the duration of an academic year, or<\/p>\n<p>(c)for the 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