Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 325: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when the child dependant allowance payment ceases for persons in receipt of the disability benefit and the one-parent family allowance. [28213/05]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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Child dependant increase, CDI, is paid with social welfare payments in respect of each qualified child up to age 18 years. This age limit can be extended to age 22 years in certain circumstances, including where the parent of a full-time student is in receipt of a long-term social welfare payment such as one-parent family payment, or a short-term social welfare scheme for six months, and where the child is attending a full-time course of education or training. Disability benefit is considered to be a short-term scheme for this purpose.

Where the spouse of a disability benefit recipient is earning up to €220 per week, full rate CDI is payable. Where earnings are between €220 and €350 per week, half rate is payable. Beyond this level of earnings, no CDI is payable. Payment of CDI for both disability benefit and one-parent family payment ceases when a child is no longer of a qualifying age, becomes eligible to claim a social welfare payment in his or her own right, or when the claimant's own entitlement to payment ceases.