134 Deputy Pádraic McCormack asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he proposes to proceed with the switching from book to swipe card payment for a number of social welfare payments; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that these proposed changes will result in further marginalisation of social welfare recipients who chose to collect their payments at the post office in cash and that all recipients will have to attend in person to sign for their payments as their payment dockets will not be transferred to their agent to collect on their behalf; his views on whether it will cause hardship to some people that the proposed changes will only mean that the dockets are valid for 20 days while under the old system they were valid for three months and sometimes at Christmas and back to school times where some social welfare recipients used this as a type of saving method, for example, children’s allowance dockets are valid for six months and this is also proposed to be reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5697/08]

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134 Deputy Pádraic McCormack asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he proposes to proceed with the switching from book to swipe card payment for a number of social welfare payments; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that these proposed changes will result in further marginalisation of social welfare recipients who chose to collect their payments at the post office in cash and that all recipients will have to attend in person to sign for their payments as their payment dockets will not be transferred to their agent to collect on their behalf; his views on whether it will cause hardship to some people that the proposed changes will only mean that the dockets are valid for 20 days while under the old system they were valid for three months and sometimes at Christmas and back to school times where some social welfare recipients used this as a type of saving method, for example, children’s allowance dockets are valid for six months and this is also proposed to be reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5697/08]

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