Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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841. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32397/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Partial Capacity Benefit (PCB) allows a person who has been in receipt of Illness Benefit for six months and who may not have full capacity for work, to return to employment and continue to receive a partial or full payment from the Department.

The personal rate of payment is based on the assessment of the persons restriction on capacity for work i.e. Moderate, Severe or Profound, where they retain 50%, 75%, or 100% of their payment respectively.

The Partial Capacity Benefit claim from the person concerned has been processed. A letter issued on the 31st August 2020 informing the claimant that she has been assessed as having a severe restriction on her capacity to work and asked that she inform the department before starting work in order that her claim be put into payment.

Once the department has received a return to work date from the person concerned their PCB payment will commence.

I hope this clarifies the position for the Deputy.