Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection
Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised)
3:25 pm
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source
In the context of the bereavement grant, the Department makes a number of payments to people who have unfortunately been bereaved. In the case of a widow or widower whose spouse has died, we continue to pay the social welfare pension of the person who has died for six weeks. That is worth far more to people than the bereavement grant.
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