Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 325: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been refused a rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19639/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance and rent supplement schemes are administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive. The Executive has advised that supplementary welfare allowance and rent supplement claims by the person concerned have been disallowed as he is not deemed to be habitually resident in the State. The person concerned has been advised of his right of appeal against the decision to an Appeals Officer of the Executive.

John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 326: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if rent allowance will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if the application will be expedited. [19674/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare division 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. It is a condition of entitlement to rent supplement that, in any continuous 18 month period, a person has not refused a third offer of accommodation made by a housing authority, including accommodation offered under the Rental Accommodation Scheme.

The Executive has advised that payment of rent supplement to the person concerned was stopped as she has refused three offers of accommodation by her local authority in a period of 18 months. The Executive has further advised that the person concerned has appealed against this decision. The Appeals Officer will be in contact with the person concerned when a decision has been made on her appeal.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 328: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when unemployment assistance will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19708/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned was in receipt of Jobseeker's Benefit from 28 January 2008 to 29 April 2009 when his entitlement to payment expired. He has now applied for Jobseeker's Allowance. This application is currently with a Social Welfare Inspector for investigation and he will be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.

Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 329: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare was refused a rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19712/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The Executive has advised that payment of rent supplement has been suspended pending a review of entitlement. The Executive has been in direct contact with the person concerned and is awaiting her proposal for repaying an outstanding overpayment of rent supplement.