Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the back to work dividend scheme does not facilitate an arrangement whereby payments can be collected by recipients at post offices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20270/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The back to work family dividend (BTWFD) scheme is an in-work support payment. As an in-work support, payment by electronic fund transfer (EFT) into a bank account was chosen as the most convenient and appropriate payment method for the scheme whose recipients are at work. There is no provision for it to be paid into a post office account.

More generally, the Deputy should note however that customers of the Department can choose between payment at the post office or by electronic fund transfer, subject to overall control requirements.