Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 249: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will clarify the issue of the tax treatment of couples on old age pensions in a manner that could be regarded as discriminatory and outline the way in which their PAYE tax credit is implemented when the couple are on separate social welfare pensions; when the couple has one person on social welfare and one on qualified adult allowance, when the couple divide their entitlements with each getting their own payment and the way in which social welfare take this into account when they included pensions as qualified adult allowance when their own entitlement on their own record may be slightly less. [2367/10]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The tax treatment of social welfare pensions is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Finance. However, I can confirm that tax ramifications are not taken into account when calculating the social welfare pension entitlements of a couple.