John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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83. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a carer's allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow, on the basis of the information that person has submitted in full; if she will review the letter of 5 January 2015 from her Department as all the information requested has already been submitted. [5354/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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It is a condition for receipt of Carer’s Allowance (CA) that a carer must not be employed outside the home in excess of 15 hours per week.

The person in question was awarded Carer’s Allowance (CA) from 30th March 2006. In 2014 a continuing eligibility review of the CA payment was carried out. Following this review and taking all available information into account a deciding officer (DO) decided that the person in question was working outside the home in excess of 15 hours per week. On the 9th September 2014 the person concerned was notified that her CA payment would be stopped. Furthermore, CA was disallowed for the period that the person in question was working in excess of 15 hours while in receipt of CA resulting in an overpayment being assessed.

The department received a new application for CA from the person in question on the 8th August 2014. An information request was made to the person in question on 26th November 2014 requesting statements from financial institutions, payslips from the 8th August 2014 to date, and to have a form regarding schedule of hours worked from 8th August 2014 completed by her employer. As the information requested was not received by the Department, a letter was issued on the 5th January 2015 notifying the person concerned that her claim for CA was withdrawn. No further correspondence has been received from the person in question to date.