Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made regarding a carer's allowance review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47674/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care.

If a person is in receipt of another social welfare payment in their own right (other than unemployment payments or supplementary welfare allowance) or being claimed as a qualified adult on their spouse/partner's payment, a half-rate carer's allowance can be paid too as long as all the normal conditions for receipt of CA are satisfied.

The person concerned was in receipt of Illness Benefit up to 24 September 2018.  As a result CA was paid to her at half-rate.

As a result of the cessation of her Illness Benefit, it has been decided that the person concerned is entitled to full rate CA from 27 September 2018.

Arrears of allowance due from 27 September 2018 to 14 November 2018 have issued.  

The person concerned was notified on 15 November 2018 of this outcome and of her right of review and appeal.  

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.