Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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915. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1822/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned exhausted their entitlement to payment of Illness Benefit with effect from 4 November 2022 having received their full entitlement of Illness Benefit.  A person who has paid between 104 and 259 PRSI contributions at an appropriate class, since entering employment, is entitled to receive payment of Illness Benefit for a maximum period of 1 year or 312 paid days in any one period of interruption of employment. 

The person concerned subsequently made an application for assistance under the terms of the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme.  An examination of their circumstances was undertaken and the individual was found to have means in excess of the SWA rate appropriate to their family circumstances and therefore his application was refused accordingly.

I trust this clarifies the position for the Deputy.