Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if public sector pension deductions are included as a statutory deduction in social work welfare assessments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38354/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Social welfare legislation provides for a number of deductions in the assessment of earnings for means-testing purposes. In this regard, for weekly social assistance schemes and for the Working Family Payment, earnings are assessed less "any allowable contribution referred to in Regulations 41 and 42 of the Income Tax (Employments)(Consolidated) Regulations 2001". Pension related deductions come within the remit of Regulation 41, and as such are considered as a statutory deduction in the assessment of earnings for social welfare means-testing purposes.