Written answers
Thursday, 6 October 2005
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Social Welfare Code
5:00 pm
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 183: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will review the arrangement whereby qualification for the family income supplement will be counted as means in the determination of eligibility for the household benefit package; if restricting qualification to the household benefit package in this way is an intended policy; if not, if he will undertake to address this anomaly in the context of budget 2006 and Social Welfare Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27266/05]
Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The household benefits package, which comprises the electricity-gas allowance, telephone allowance and free lifetime television licence schemes, is available to people living permanently in the State. People aged over 70 years can qualify regardless of their income or household composition. The package is also available to carers and to people with disabilities under the age of 66 who are in receipt of certain welfare type payments.
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