Jim Mitchell
Question:98 Mr. J. Mitchell asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will make a statement on the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20 whereby deserted wife's benefit was discontinued because the recipient's youngest child had reached her 18th birthday and the recipient herself was three-and-a-half months short of her own 40th birthday; his views on whether the consequent three-and-a-half months interruption in payment of deserted wife's benefit is causing hardship and, in the circumstances, if he will make special arrangements for the person to receive deserted wife's benefit or a comparable social welfare allowance during the three-and-a-half month gap.