Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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900. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a jobseeker's benefit application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23749/19]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned made a Jobseekers application at the end of January 2019. A decision to refuse Jobseekers Benefit was made on 10^thApril 2019, and the person concerned was notified in writing including his right to appeal the decision.

Subsequently, Jobseekers Allowance payment (at a weekly rate of €203.00) was awarded on 25^thApril 2019.  In the interim period, the person concerned was in receipt of Supplementary Welfare Allowance from the Department’s Community Welfare Service for the days/weeks when he was unemployed.