Written answers
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Department of Health
Medical Card Eligibility
Séamus Healy (Tipperary, Workers and Unemployed Action Group)
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329. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding medical card applicants in receipt of disability allowance and who also have earnings from employment; if the requirement to provide a letter that states the employment is of a rehabilitative nature will be removed as is the case with the disability allowance section; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51193/19]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The removal of the requirement for work to be of a "rehabilitative nature" in respect of the assessment of persons with a disability for a medical card was one of the key recommendations of the Make Work Pay for Persons with Disabilities Report. The HSE implemented this recommendation in May 2017.
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