Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford was refused fuel allowance when the additional income is well under the weekly threshold; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44112/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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In order to be eligible for a fuel allowance, a person must be in receipt of a qualifying payment, satisfy a household means test, and live alone or only with specific people. One of the criteria for an applicant living with someone else is that this person must be in receipt of a qualifying payment that would entitle them to fuel allowance in their own right. In the case concerned, the spouse of the person is in receipt of a disablement pension which is not a qualifying payment for fuel allowance. Accordingly, the application has been disallowed.