Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the partial capacity benefit scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5567/16]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

Partial Capacity Benefit (PCB) is a social welfare scheme which allows a person return to employment if they have a reduced capacity for work, and to continue to receive a payment from my department. A person who applies for PCB will, in the first instance, be assessed by a Medical Assessor who assesses the degree of partial capacity.

Following a medical assessment the person concerned has been assessed as having a moderately reduced capacity to work. The corresponding personal rate of PCB is therefore 50% of their personal rate of invalidity pension which they are receiving.

The person concerned has been notified of this decision by letter dated 1 April 2016.

Should the person concerned wish to commence employment they should advise this office in advance of the date they commence employment. Arrangements can then be made to put the PCB claim into payment and grant them permission, in writing, to commence work.