Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 326: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare against the decision to refuse their application for rent allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19425/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes rent supplement, is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive (HSE). The purpose of rent supplement is to provide short-term income support to eligible tenants living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. The HSE has advised that the person concerned is residing in the family home. Consequently, she has accommodation available to her and is not entitled to rent supplement in respect of alternative accommodation. She has been advised accordingly and has appealed against this decision to the HSE Appeals Office. She will be advised of the outcome of her appeal in due course.