asked the Minister for Social Welfare why a person (name supplied) in Dublin was granted only 60p per week unemployment assistance.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Unemployment Assistance.
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The means for unemployment assistance purposes of the person in question were assessed by a deciding officer at £3 weekly. The maximum weekly rate of unemployment assistance payable to a single person with no dependent who resides in an urban area is £3.60. The deduction from this amount of the weekly means leaves the applicant entitled to unemployment assistance at 60p per week.
As the Deputy was recently informed by my Department, the means assessed represents the deciding officer's estimate, based on the facts of the case, of the value of the benefit or privilege enjoyed by the applicant from board and lodging in his parents' household. An appeal recently made by the applicant against the decision of the deciding officer is receiving attention.