Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 275: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of carer's allowance who have had their allowance withdrawn in the past six months. [13884/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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There were 641 new applications for carer's allowance withdrawn without a decision being made in the six months to end February 2012. Withdrawals are made by an applicant for various reasons or an application can be withdrawn by a deciding officer when information requested in order to decide it is not supplied by applicant.

Applications that were previously in payment but are subsequently withdrawn are referred to as terminations. In the six months to end of Feb 2012, there were 3,612 such terminations. Carer's allowance may be terminated when conditions for its receipt are no longer satisfied. The main reasons for termination include the death of carer or the care recipient, full-time care no longer being provided by the carer or the care recipient entering long-term residential care.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 276: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of domiciliary care allowance who have had their allowance withdrawn in the past six months. [13885/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Domiciliary care allowance (DCA) cases are routinely reviewed to ensure that the conditions for receipt of the payment continue to be met.

Since September 2011, 213 of the DCA claims reviewed have been found to no longer have an entitlement to the allowance and payment in these cases has been stopped.