Written answers
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Department of Social Protection
Disability Allowance Payments
Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Renua Ireland)
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66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of disability payments to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46601/15]
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Illness benefit is a payment for people who cannot work due to illness and who satisfy the pay related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions. Following a change announced in Budget 2014 a customer is not entitled to illness benefit for the first 6 days of any period of incapacity for work.
The person concerned made a claim to illness benefit from 14 December 2015 and returned to work on 21 December 2015. The person concerned had no entitlement to payment of illness benefit as the period of incapacity for work was less than 6 days. My department has no plans to reverse this amendment to the illness benefit scheme.
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