Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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An employer who pays redundancy to a qualified employee is entitled to seek a rebate from the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in the order of 60% of the statutory amount. The Redundancy Payments Section of my Department has received statutory redundancy rebate applications from the employer concerned in respect of three of his former employees.

In the case of one of the applications the rebate payment has recently issued to the employer. Two outstanding applications received in March and April of this year await processing. Due to the unprecedented increase in the volume of claims on hand, claims received in January are currently receiving priority attention. Claims completed manually, submitted by post and received in January and claims submitted online (to www.entemp.ie) received in February are currently being processed. Claims submitted online because of their nature tend to have a faster processing time. All claims are processed strictly in order of date of receipt in fairness to all claimants.

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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I am pleased to advise the Deputy that the Redundancy Payments Section of my Department has completed the processing of the redundancy application for the individual concerned and that a statutory redundancy lump sum payment was authorised on the 28th of August 2009. Payment of the amount involved will follow shortly thereafter.

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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There are 41, 854 claims currently on hand as of 4th September 2009. This figure includes claims at various stages of processing, including those which were incomplete and/or which require further information to allow processing to be completed.