Correction to unemployment assistance payment
A calculation error had underpaid the claimant by £29.15; it was corrected and the arrears paid on 8 September.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare when an increase in unemployment benefit will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Galway.
Comment on this
The person concerned is in receipt of the correct rate of unemployment assistance appropriate to a single person residing in a rural area with means assessed on a factual basis. He is presently being paid at the rate of £12.70 a week, being the maximum rate of £20.35 less means of £7.65. However, due to a calculation error at the local office at the commencement of his claim he had been underpaid £29.15. This error was subsequently corrected and the full amount due was paid to him on 8 September 1981.
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