Is one entitled to living alone allowance and fuel allowance if in receipt of UK state pension?

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Is one entitled to living alone allowance and fuel allowance if in receipt of UK state pension? Means test is met.

I ask as in the bit about Living alone it makes no mention of UK state pension. Person is 81 and widowed.
 
According to a PQ reply, receipt of a UK pension does not qualify for living alone increase.

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2025-02-13/226

If her UK pension is below the rate of non-contributory widows pension, she could apply for that pension (subject to means test), and could then qualify for living alone increase.

For the fuel allowance, once she passes the means test and is over 66, she can qualify

 
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