Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 408: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason rent support has not been granted in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17513/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible people 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 Executive has advised that the person concerned first presented to the community welfare officer seeking payment of rent supplement at the end of February 2009 but he has not provided proof of his address to date. The community welfare officer is due to make a home visit shortly to the person concerned to assess entitlement to rent supplement.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 409: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if an increase in rent support will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17516/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The Executive has advised that the person concerned is in receipt of rent supplement of €355.83 per month based on household income from one-parent family payment, maintenance payments and part-time employment, assessed at the end of February 2009. The Executive has advised that the person concerned should contact the community welfare officer, if there has been a change in circumstances, in order that her entitlement to rent supplement can be reviewed.