Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity)
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258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be permitted to collect the one-parent family payment on behalf of that person's child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7419/19]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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One-Parent Family Payment (OFP) is a payment for men and women under 66 who are bringing children up without the support of a partner. To get this payment it is necessary to meet certain conditions and to satisfy a means test.

An applicant for one-parent family payment must be the parent, step-parent, adoptive parent or legal guardian of at least one relevant child, who normally resides with him/her.

In this instance, the person concerned has applied for legal guardianship of the children but is not yet their legal guardian and whilst a decision on this application is pending, is receiving weekly Supplementary Welfare Allowance for themselves and the qualified children.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the deputy