Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in relation to an illness benefit application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48570/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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My Department administers the Illness Benefit (IB) scheme to those customers who cannot work because they are sick or ill provided they are covered by the appropriate class of social insurance (PRSI) and satisfy the PRSI conditions.

One of these conditions is that a person must have a required number of paid or  credited contributions in the year that governs the claim.  The governing PRSI contribution year for IB claims made in 2018 is 2016.

Unfortunately, the person concerned has no paid or credited contributions in 2016  and, consequently, she does not qualify for a payment of IB at this time.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.