Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North, Sinn Fein)
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571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the claim for partial capacity benefit by a person (details supplied) will be reconsidered. [13862/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Partial Capacity Benefit allows a person who has been in receipt of Illness Benefit for six months or Invalidity Pension 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 person concerned is currently in receipt of Disability Allowance. Persons in receipt of Disability Allowance are not eligible for Partial Capacity Benefit.  The structure of the Disability Allowance scheme already provides supports - e.g. through the income disregard - for customers who wish to engage in employment.

A letter issued to the person concerned on the 13th July 2021 informing her that she is not entitled to claim Partial Capacity Benefit.

I trust this clarifies the position for the Deputy.