asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will arrange for payment of unemployment assistance to a person (name supplied) in County Kerry.
Written Answers. - Kerry Unemployment Assistance Claim.
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Unemployment assistance is not payable to the person named as it was decided by a deciding officer that his weekly rate of means, assessed for the purposes of the Unemployment Assistance Acts, exceeded the scheduled rate of unemployment assistance payable to a single man who lives in a rural area and has no dependants. A deciding officer had assessed the rate of means, derived from benefit or privilege of free board and lodgings, at £7.50 a week. An appeals officer subsequently upheld the decision of the deciding officer. In the absence of new facts or fresh evidence, the decision of the appeals officer is final.