Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 610: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason rent supplement for a person (details supplied) in County Clare has ceased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14415/07]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes rent supplement, is administered on my behalf by the Community Welfare Division of the Health Service Executive. The Executive has advised that as part of a routine review, it had suspended payment of rent supplement on the grounds that it had not received from the person concerned the documentation required to allow it to determine continued entitlement. The Executive has further advised that, following receipt of the required documentation, it has now re-instated payment of rent supplement to the person concerned at the level previously in payment and back-dated to the date from which it had been suspended.