Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of application for one-parent family allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare submitted four weeks ago to their local office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3836/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The person concerned submitted an application for One Parent Family Payment on the 30th of October 2014. The One Parent Family Payment scheme is subject to a means test and in order to carry out a means test a customer must be available for interview or contactable at a given address. The person concerned was recently invited for interview with a Social Welfare Inspector but failed to attend. The Social Welfare Inspector had also tried on a number of occasions to contact the person concerned by telephone and by way of a house call but again was unable to contact the person concerned. To date, no contact or explanation has been received from the person concerned. The application was recently closed and the person concerned was notified of this decision in writing.