Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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135. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a supplementary welfare allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36468/14]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that a supplementary welfare allowance appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 24 September 2014, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing.

An invalidity pension appeal was also made by the person concerned and was registered in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 26 June 2014. I am advised that following the submission of additional medical evidence and the review of that evidence by a Medical Assessor, the Department has decided to revise the decision to disallow invalidity pension in the case of the person concerned and confirmation of this revised decision will issue shortly from the Invalidity Pension Section. Consequently the invalidity pension appeal will be deemed to have been withdrawn.

The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements.