Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 626: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if arrears of invalidity pension backdated to 2001 when they first suffered a stroke, are payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14643/07]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned was in receipt of a disability allowance from September 2001. In June 2006 he applied for and was awarded an invalidity pension. It subsequently transpired that, in this case, the pension was awarded in error. A decision was made to disallow his invalidity pension and to resume his disability allowance claim. The person concerned appealed the decision and following a review of the case an Appeals Officer upheld the disallowance decision. The person concerned, continues to be entitled to disability allowance which is in payment at the maximum personal rate.