Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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191. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite the review and re-instatement of a carer’s allowance payment for a person (details supplied). [25395/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, 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.

Once claims are in payment, the Department periodically reviews them to ensure that there is continued entitlement. Depending on the circumstances in each case and to make best use of resources, a review may only concentrate on a specific condition of entitlement.

In this case, the means of the person concerned are being reviewed. The review required the person concerned to complete and return the Means Assessment Review Form which issued in February 2023 to accurately assess her means.

It is a condition for receipt of CA that every claimant shall furnish such certificates, documents, information and/or evidence as may be required for the purposes of deciding the claim.

On 19 April 2023, the person was notified that she no longer had an entitlement to CA, as she had failed to supply such certificates, documents, information, or evidence that was requested (in this case, the CA Means Review Form) and, therefore, it was not possible to determine if all the necessary conditions for continuing receipt of CA were being met. Three further requests for information were issued to he person in May.

To date, the person concerned has not furnished these documents.

Upon receipt of all the information requested and the completed CA Means Review Form, the claim will be reviewed and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

I hope this clarifies the position for the Deputy.