Written answers
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Social Welfare Benefits
Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the different social insurance benefits payees of each of the different PRSI class are entitled to, in tabular form. [24259/20]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy, including the benefits available to voluntary contributors, is contained in the following table.
| PRSI Class | A | B | C | D | E | H | J | K | M | P | S | Voluntary Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adoptive Benefit | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Carer’s Benefit | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| Guardian’s Payment (Contributory) | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Health and Safety Benefit | X | X | X | |||||||||
| Illness Benefit | X | X | X | X* | ||||||||
| Invalidity Pension | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Jobseeker's Benefit | X | X | X* | |||||||||
| Jobseeker's Benefit (Self-Employed) | X | |||||||||||
| Maternity Benefit | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
| Occupational Injuries Benefit | X | X* | X | X | X** | |||||||
| Parent’s Benefit | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Partial Capacity Benefit | X | X | ||||||||||
| Paternity Benefit | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
| State Pension (Contributory) | X | X | X | X | X*** | |||||||
| Treatment Benefit | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| Widows’, Widowers’ and Surviving Civil Partner’s (Contributory) Pension | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
* Class B and P - limited benefit.
** Class M - limited circumstances.
*** Not applicable to former Class B, C and D contributors.
In addition to the above benefits, the Pandemic Unemployment Payment is available to employees who lost their employment and to self-employed workers who lost their income on or after 13 March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Enhanced Illness Benefit, introduced from 9 March 2020, is also available to employed and self-employed workers for Covid-19 absences from work.
I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
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