Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 230: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding payment of rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [7729/11]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Rent supplement is subject to a maximum limit on the amount of rent that an applicant may incur. The objective is to ensure that rent supplement is not paid in respect of overly expensive accommodation having regard to the size of the household.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has advised that the person concerned applied for a rent supplement in November 2010 but the rent was in excess of the maximum rent limit for his family size. The HSE has further advised that it awarded payment of a rent supplement, as an exceptional measure for 12 weeks, to allow the person concerned to find alternative accommodation within the prescribed limits.

The HSE has advised that it wrote to the person concerned on 16th November 2010 stating that the rent supplement would cease from 29th January 2011 and that it has received no contact or appeal against this decision from the person concerned since this date.