Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of carer's allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10822/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Carer's Allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has a disability such that they require that level of care.

The person concerned is currently in receipt CA at the weekly rate of €263.60 which is the maximum rate of carer’s allowance for a person caring for one person who has two qualified children.

The person concerned was in receipt of one-parent family payment (OFP) up to 2 July 2014 which stopped when her youngest child reached the OFP age threshold.