Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 397: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when social welfare payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42992/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned claimed jobseeker's allowance from 17 July 2009. One of the qualifying conditions for receipt of jobseeker's allowance is that a person must be habitually resident in the state. A deciding officer decided that he is not habitually resident in the state.

The person concerned was notified of the decision on 20 November and of his right to appeal against the decision within 21 days of the notification.

Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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Question 398: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [43003/09]

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.

Payment of Rent Supplement is normally calculated to ensure that a person, after the payment of rent, has an income equal to the rate of Supplementary Welfare Allowance appropriate to their family circumstances, less a minimum weekly contribution of €24, which recipients are required to pay from their own resources. Many recipients pay more than €24 because they are also required, subject to income disregards, to contribute any additional assessable means that they have, over and above the appropriate rate of Supplementary Welfare Allowance, towards their accommodation costs.

The Executive has advised that the person concerned is in receipt of her full entitlement to Rent Supplement based on her income from One-parent Family Payment, Part-time Earnings and Maintenance.