Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 276: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when family income supplement will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43381/06]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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Family Income Supplement (FIS) is designed to provide income support for employees on low earnings with children and thereby preserve the incentive to remain in employment in circumstances where the employee might only be marginally better off than if s/he were claiming other Social Welfare payments.

My Department received an application for Family Income Supplement from the person concerned on 17 October 2006.

It was necessary for her application to be referred to a Social Welfare Inspector for investigation.

These investigations have not yet been concluded. The application will be decided on completion of these investigations and a decision communicated to the person concerned.