Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 277: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason supplementary welfare payment has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare while her appeal against termination of one-parent family allowance is pending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15456/05]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned had been refused one-parent family payment by my Department on the grounds that she was cohabiting. She has appealed that decision to the social welfare appeals office.

In the light of that situation, the Dublin and mid-Leinster area of the Health Service Executive has advised that it requested the person concerned to clarify her household circumstances so that her continued entitlement to supplementary welfare allowance and rent supplement could be assessed. She failed to provide the clarification sought, and those payments were terminated by the executive accordingly.

The executive has further advised that she has been unsuccessful in appealing against that decision to its area appeals officer. At the request of the person concerned, her case was referred by the executive to the social welfare appeals office for further adjudication, and a decision on that appeal is expected shortly.