PQ 227
227. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a couple who are not married but living together and where one person of the couple is working, and when it comes to claiming social welfare they are looked on as a cohabiting couple and treated as one unit for Department of Social Protection purposes, but they cannot claim tax credits in respect of the other person who is not working at the same time; her views that this different treatment by two Departments is fair; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37935/15]
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3 November 2015
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3 November 2015 · Tax Code
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Fleming, Sean.
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3 November 2015
Summary
227. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a couple who are not married but living together and where one person of the couple is working, and when it comes to claiming social welfare they are looked on as a cohabiting couple and treated as one unit for Department of Social Protection purposes, but they cannot claim tax credits in respect of the other person who is not working at the same time; her views that this different treatment by two Departments is fair; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37935/15]
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3 November 2015
Tax Code
227. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a couple who are not married but living together and where one person of the couple is working, and when it comes to claiming social welfare they are looked on as a cohabiting couple and treated as one unit for Department of Social Protection purposes, but they cannot claim tax credits in respect of the other person who is not working at the same time; her views that this different treatment by two Departments is fair; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37935/15]
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- Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2015-11-03/227/
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