Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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56. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct amount of one-parent family payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has one dependent child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24422/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The person concerned is not in receipt of a one-parent family (OPF) payment but receives a jobseeker’s allowance payment with a weekly entitlement of €217.80. As the person concerned is a casual worker, for each day that she is employed €25.00 means per day is deducted. The person concerned has a dependent child under the age of 14 and as such the jobseeker’s transitional payment may be more financially beneficial to her. An application form for jobseeker’s transitional payment has been posted to the person concerned and it is open to her to complete and return this form to have her entitlement to this payment assessed.