Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)

Question 5: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason his Department continues to treat joint bank accounts as income for the purpose of assessing entitlement to a qualified adult allowance; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that such treatment can sometimes mean that pension lump sums and redundancy lump sums when saved in a joint account are assessed as income for the qualified adult allowance; his plans to change this practice, as requested by the senior citizens' parliament; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4761/06]

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