Written answers
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Department of Social Protection
Social Welfare Code
5:00 pm
Seán Kenny (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Question 119: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the decision to refuse payment for an eye test for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13. [26821/11]
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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In order to qualify under the treatment benefit scheme, a person must have 39 reckonable PRSI contributions paid at class A, E, H or P, in the relevant tax year/s. The person concerned paid PRSI contributions at class D in the relevant tax years and as a result, he does not qualify for a free eye examination under the scheme.
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