asked the Minister for Social Welfare if an increase in non-contributory old age pension will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Written Answers . - Social Welfare Benefits .
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: Following a reinvestigation of the old age pension entitlement of the person concerned it was decided by the local pension committee on 16 February 1983 that he was only entitled to a pension at the rate of £26.45 a week from 14 January 1983. The assessment of his means, consisting of half the weekly value of capital and the weekly letting value of his wife's share of a holding, entitles him to pension at this rate. The pensioner has not so far appealed against this decision.