Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 175: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason jobseeker's allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was stopped from the date of their inquiry about travelling to a UK wedding rather than from the actual date of their travel to the UK; and if their payment will be restored from 2 to 18 April 2008. [20292/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned advised his local Social Welfare Office that he would be in the UK from 8 April 2008. He was paid for the maximum 2 week holiday period from 8 April 2008 to 21 April 2008. He failed to present himself at the Social Welfare Office again until 1 May 2008. It is understood that he remained outside the State from 22 April 2008 until 30 April 2008, and accordingly he sustained a loss of 8 days' jobseeker's benefit. It is open to him to contact his local Social Welfare Office if he has evidence to show that he was in the State for that period.