Written answers
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Department of Social Protection
Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if persons in receipt of the one parent family payment on the jobseeker's transitional allowance are ineligible for the Christmas bonus and/or the fuel allowance; and the position regarding same if a lone parent is in receipt of the working family dividend. [39781/15]
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Recipients of the jobseeker’s transitional payment are eligible for both the Christmas bonus and the fuel allowance.
Recipients of the back to work family dividend are not eligible for the fuel allowance but will receive the Christmas bonus.
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