Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 140: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason an appeal has not been accepted against the decision to refuse unemployment benefit in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44645/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned was in receipt of Jobseeker's Allowance from January 2008 to 28 October 2008. Payment ceased when he failed to sign the Live Register on the appointed day (23 October 2008) and thereby failed to prove he was unemployed from that date.

He made a repeat claim on 10 November 2008 and the claim was disallowed on the grounds that he had failed to submit any evidence of his efforts in seeking employment.

Notification of the decision and his right to appeal issued to him on 12 November 2008 and there is no record of an appeal made at this time. An appeal form will be made available to him at the Blessington Signing Office on Thursday (4 December 2008) between the hours of 10 a.m. and 11.45 a.m. On this appeal form it will be open to him to state the grounds of his appeal.