Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to expedite an application under the family income supplement scheme by a person (details supplied). [5206/16]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Family income supplement (FIS) is not payable to a person who is either on jobseeker's allowance (JA) or where an increase for a qualified adult (IQA) on JA is being claimed in their respect.

The person in question is currently being claimed for as an IQA on her spouse/partner’s JA.

Once the FIS entitlement of the person in question was established, it was apparent that it was financially more beneficial for her spouse/partner to continue to claim an IQA in her respect on his JA.

The person in question was notified of her potential FIS entitlement on 11 February 2016 and advised that it was to her advantage to continue to be claimed as an IQA on her spouse/partner’s JA rather than relinquish that IQA and claim FIS.