Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 728: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he has taken to ensure that all spouses of self-employed persons making contributions since 1988 have an entitlement to widows or widowers pension in accordance with previous indications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15834/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Entitlement to Widow's and Widower's Contributory Pension can be based on either the applicant's own PRSI record or that of the deceased spouse. Accordingly, an award of Widow's or Widower's Contributory Pension can be made where the social insurance record being used for assessment satisfies the relevant social insurance legislative provisions and where all other qualifying conditions for receipt of pension are satisfied.