Written answers
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Department of Social Protection
Invalidity Pension Appeals
Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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400. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an invalidity application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [32876/14]
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on the 6thDecember 2013. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Social Protection. These papers were received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on the 27thJune 2014 and the case has been referred to an Appeals Officer who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing.
The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements.
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