Michael Healy-Rae
Question:1183. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of a claim for FIS by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33593/17]
View answerThursday, 13 July 2017
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Written answers
The person concerned made an application for Family Income Supplement (FIS) on 27th March 2017. At the time of application, the person concerned had a One Parent Family Payment (OFP) claim pending and FIS could not proceed with assessment until a decision was made on the OFP claim.
OFP was awarded to the claimant on 6th April 2017 and the Deciding Officer (DO) proceeded with assessment of the FIS application. During the FIS assessment, it was noted by the DO that the applicant provided one payslip with the application. However, FIS could not be awarded to the person concerned as the information on the payslip indicated the applicant may not have worked the required number of hours in order to qualify.
The DO wrote to the customer on 6th April 2017 and requested all payslips for February and March 2017 in order to get a more accurate account of the claimant’s work pattern.
The person concerned forwarded 5 payslips dating from 30th April 2017 to 11th June 2017 on 16th June 2017 which was not the requested information from the DO. However, the DO accepted the information from the applicant and proceeded with a further assessment of the FIS claim.
On 21st June 2017, FIS was refused to the person concerned as the number of hours worked were less than 38 hours per fortnight as per the Gross to Date (GTD) figures on the payslip of 4th June 2017.
The DO has now requested a schedule of hours or all payslips from January 2017 to date from the person concerned and when this information is received, a review of the claimant’s FIS will take place without delay.
I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.