Written answers

Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility

Photo of Thomas ByrneThomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an affidavit is acceptable documentation advising on the separation of a couple in circumstance in which a couple is separated and documentation is requested from her Department. [27572/19]

Photo of Regina DohertyRegina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Yes, an affidavit is acceptable documentation advising on the separation of a couple in circumstance in which a couple is separated.

For a person to qualify as a separated in order to qualify for the One Parent Family Payment s/he must have been living apart from his/her spouse/civil partner for at least 3 months.

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