Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of claims submitted and the number of persons who have received enhanced illness benefit for Covid-19; the number of claims that were in payment for two, four, six, eight and ten weeks, respectively; the number of claims that transferred over to illness benefit after the ten-week payment period had expired; the number of these claims that were in payment for more than two weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44081/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Enhanced Illness Benefit (EIB) is a form of Illness Benefit that is payable to self-employed persons or an employee who is told to self-isolate or has been diagnosed with Covid-19. The number of claims received and the number of recipients of EIB are provided in Table 1. Details on the duration of EIB claims are set out in Table 2.

Table 1: Applications and Recipients for Enhanced Illness Benefit (EIB)

Table 2: Enhanced Illness Benefit Claim durations