Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 1 December 2020
477. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason Intreo will not provide a statement of the record of payments to a jobseeker (details supplied) in order to provide this statement to SUSI for the purpose of ensuring the person's child gains access to a grant for a third level college; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39782/20]
View answerPayment information with regard to my Departments' schemes is available to SUSI from 1 January 2014 over the Application Programme Interface (API). The API calls are embedded into the SUSI Grant application system. The information shared with SUSI is customer identity, claim/allowances, payments and means factors. SUSI access the API to request a statement of a person's payment record in order to support their application for a SUSI grant.
I am advised that, on 25 November 2020, the jobseeker concerned received a payments statement from the relevant Intreo Centre for the period from 1 January 2016 to 25 November 2020. In addition, statements for 2018 were issued to the person concerned on 26 March 2019 and on 23 July 2019. If there are no payment records provided on a statement it indicates that no payments were paid to the person concerned by my Department for that year.
I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
