Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2021-12-17
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I thank the Minister for the response. I concur and think that is important research. I have a follow-up question to clarify the matter of the jobseeker's transitional payment. While it is not the one-parent family payment, it is the payment that many of those parenting alone are on. Does the income disregard policy that the Minister mentioned apply to the jobseeker's transitional payment too, when people are on the one-parent family payment and move to the transitional payment after the child hits a certain age? That is between seven and 14. I welcome the income disregard measures and ask if they apply to that payment.

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Sitting date: 2021-12-17