Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 413: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of payments made to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare from the community welfare officer for the period 2000 to 2002; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47166/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive.

The Executive has advised that the person concerned received basic weekly SWA payments totalling €5,310.90 from 10 January 2002 to 31 July 2002, travel supplement payments totalling €210 from 7 January 2002 to 23 February 2002 and mortgage interest payments totalling €483.20 from 1 January 2002 to 30 April 2003. He received no SWA payments in 2000 or 2001.

If the person concerned requires further clarification on these payments then he should contact the community welfare officer at his local health centre who will assist him.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 414: 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; if her attention has been drawn to the hardship and anxiety caused arising from this decision arising from the reply to a previous question; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47233/08]

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 time.

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 on 12 November 2008 and an appeal was received on 15 December 2008. All relevant papers will be sent to the Appeal Office as soon as possible and they will be in touch with him in due course.

In the meantime it is open to him to contact the local Community Welfare Officer who may be in a position to help him.