Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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23. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has been awarded partial capacity benefit of 75% will not be able to receive a top-up of the remaining 25%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6582/16]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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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 was assessed as having a severely reduced capacity for work. The corresponding personal rate of PCB is therefore 75% of the personal rate of invalidity pension which they are receiving. In accordance with the regulations of the scheme, the full personal rate of invalidity pension could not be paid in respect of the weeks when the person concerned is in employment.