Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
They would be reduced. The Government has extended the benefits available to self-employed people to include treatment benefit, invalidity pension and so on. The main benefits that they cannot access are illness benefit and jobseeker's benefit, but the Government has just announced that it will introduce a jobseeker's benefit for formerly self-employed people. The percentage of entitlements that self-employed people will not be able to access will be small.
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