Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provision for payment to a person (details supplied) of an appropriate social welfare payment such as jobseeker's allowance or similar will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11583/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned applied for Job Seekers Allowance on 14^thDecember 2017.

Jobseekers Allowance is means tested payment, and regretfully the person concerned did not submit the required information to allow their means to be assessed and for a deciding officer to determine their entitlement to a payment.

The person’s claim was disallowed on 5^thFebruary 2018 as they had not shown that their means are less than the weekly rate of Job Seeker’s Allowance appropriate to their family circumstances.

The decision to disallow the claim can be appealed to the Social Welfare Appeals Office.

I trust that this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.