Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 180: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded the qualified adult payment in their own right. [1894/11]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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An increase for qualified adult is payable to a person whose spouse/partner is wholly or mainly maintained by them, and where the weekly means of the spouse/partner come within certain specified limits. Although this pension increase is awarded to, and remains the entitlement of the pension recipient, from 24th September 2007 it is paid directly to the spouse/partner.

The Department has no record of a claim being received from the spouse of the person concerned for an increase for qualified adult (IQA) in his State pension (contributory). A claim form/means questionnaire for IQA has been forwarded to him, and on receipt of the completed claim form, his entitlement to IQA will be examined and he will be notified of the outcome without delay.