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Scrooge Hanifin
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The Government has refused a pensioner a fuel allowance because he’s 4c over the limit. Does everything they touch right now turn to a PR disaster?
The Minister for Social and Family Affairs has taken over the role of Scrooge this Christmas.
Henry Porter, a resident in the North Inner City and ninety years of age, applied for fuel allowance for the first time in his life because his heating bills were becoming increasingly difficult to pay.
He was refused because he was four cent over the income limit!
The Department of Social and Family Affairs stated as follows on the 5th December 2008.
“Unfortunately you do not qualify for this allowance as your household income does not satisfy the means test. The income limit in your case is €333.30 per week. Your household income of €333.34 per week exceeds this income limit. As a result you are not entitled to this allowance”.
The rest of Joe Costello’s press release is here.
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