Written answers

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Social Welfare Benefits

9:00 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 806: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons currently in receipt of widow or widowers pensions on foot of self employed contributions; the number of applicants who have been disallowed for such payment in each of the past five years to date in 2010 on the grounds that the self employed contributions applied to one spouse only; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2176/10]

Photo of Mary HanafinMary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Statistics are not available on the overall number of persons currently in receipt of Widow/er' Contributory Pension on the basis of self employment PRSI specifically. However, of 5,573 Widow/er's Contributory Pensions awarded in 2009, 44 were based on self employment PRSI.

There have been no applications disallowed on the basis that self employment contributions applied to one spouse only, as entitlement to Widow/er's Contributory Pension can be based on either the applicant's own PRSI record or that of the deceased spouse.

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