Seán Kenny (Dublin North East, Labour)
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104. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the appeal against the disallowance of carer’s allowance will be decided in respect of a person(details supplied) in Dublin 13. [12466/14]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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A child under 16 years is deemed medically eligible for carer's allowance when domiciliary care allowance is in payment for that child. Once the child reaches 16 years of age and entitlement to domiciliary care allowance ceases, a review of the continuing entitlement to carer’s allowance is undertaken as medical eligibility is no longer automatically satisfied and must be confirmed. This resulted in a review in this case. Following that review Carer’s allowance was stopped from 11 December 2013 in respect of the person in question as it was decided that the medical criteria were no longer satisfied.

The person in question appealed the decision to stop the allowance and submitted additional medical evidence in support of their application. This supplementary information was forwarded to the Department’s medical assessor for consideration. Upon review, the caree was deemed eligible on medical grounds. The deciding officer awarded the application on 12 March 2014 and the first payment is due to issue to the Post Office on 20 March 2014. Arrears of allowance due from 12 December 2013 to 12 March 2014 have issued to the Post Office.