In order to qualify for a free telephone rental allowance a person must be in receipt of one of a number of specified payments and reside alone or only with persons who come within certain excepted categories. These excepted categories are: children under the age of 15; and people who are so permanently incapacitated that they could not summon help in an emergency.
According to the information available to my Department, the person concerned is residing with his spouse and one daughter aged over 15 years of age. As they do not come within the excepted categories for satisfying the living alone condition of the scheme, he does not qualify for the allowance.