Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an illness benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8580/19]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Illness Benefit is a payment for persons who are medically certified as being incapable of work and who satisfy certain PRSI ( Pay Related Social Insurance ) conditions. One of these conditions is that a person is required to have 104 reckonable PRSI contributions paid since entering insurable employment. The records of the Department show that the person concerned does not have the required amount of PRSI contributions paid and as a result she will not qualify for payment of Illness Benefit at this time.

If the person concerned considers that she may have more PRSI contributions than is recorded by the Department she should provide evidence of same and the current position will be re-examined.

I trust this clarifies matters for the Deputy.