they are entitled to no fuel allowance etc.
What Fuel Allowance is
Fuel Allowance is a payment to help with the cost of heating your home during the winter months.
You can get it if you are aged 70 or over, or getting long-term social welfare payments. (Access the full list below).
The current rate of payment is €33 every week from 25 September 2023 until 5 April 2024.
Assuming your father’s pension is a contributory statement pension, he should be receiving an allowance in respect of his wife. If his wife were to qualify for a pension in her own right, he could no longer claim for her.Good evening,
I have a query that you may be able to help me with- my 74 year old mother can’t get a pension of any description because she didn’t have enough stamps put on as she gave up work in her early 30’s to raise a family. Her husband is a retired, therefore they have to live on his pension, they are entitled to no fuel allowance etc. With the cost of living they are struggling to make ends meet.
It’s an absolute disgrace that a couple who never worked a day in their life, claimed social welfare have more money coming into the house than my parents (my father worked all his life & my mother worked from age 14 to her early thirties).It’s such an unfair system. She has applied but keeps getting told no she’s not entitled.
Is there anything that can be done about this or can someone point me in the right direction?
Kind Regards,
Concerned Son.
Maybe you should have done that before you started ranting about the system?Not vanished just trying to get my information in order before I post again
Not vanished just trying to get my information in order before I post again as I don’t want certain people making silly comments.
Any updates?Not vanished just trying to get my information in order before I post again as I don’t want certain people making silly comments.
Thanks @gipimann, you are right and made a good point, but with one exception:- if the lady's husband worked in the PS/CS and died she may apply for the Non Contributory Widows Pension only and it is means tested. Small point, but can be of interest to some depending on when they joined the CS/PS.Just to correct one point that Leper made, if the lady's husband dies and he was in receipt of a Contributory State Pension, then the lady can apply for a Contributory Widow's Pension based on her husband's PRSI record.
No "nth degree" means test required.
Declan87 is probably a good street-cred guy looking at unentitled payouts during Covid, scams on our Welfare system and much downright abuse of the Social Welfare system and elsewhere anyway.
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