The person concerned applied to my Department for a fuel allowance in January 2002. The investigation of his claim showed that the person concerned resides with his brother who is not in receipt of a social welfare payment and therefore is not one of the excepted categories of people for fuel allowance scheme purposes. The person concerned was informed, in error, that the grounds for disallowing his claim was that he had access to his own supply of fuel. This error is regretted.
As stated in my reply to the Deputy's previous Parliamentary Question in this case, however, the reason for the disallowance was that the person concerned did not satisfy the household conditions of the scheme.