Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The fuel allowance is intended to help households that depend on long-term social welfare or Health Service Executive payments and are unable to provide for their own heating needs. The fuel allowance is a means-tested payment and is payable where a customer lives either alone or with certain categories of people and the customer is in receipt of an eligible social welfare payment. Participants on Tús may retain the fuel allowance as a secondary benefit if they qualified for the allowance prior to participating on the scheme. They do not qualify for fuel allowance during their participation on Tús.