Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what benefits or social welfare payments an individual who paid class M PRSI contributions can qualify for; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48416/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Employed and self-employed contributors between the ages of 16 and pensionable age (66 years) are liable to pay PRSI at a class and rate determined by the conditions of their employment and their weekly earnings.

People with no PRSI contribution liability are recorded as Class M. These are:

• employees under age 16,
• people of pensionable age who were previously liable for Class S,
• persons in receipt of occupational pensions or lump-sum termination payments (on that portion of income only),
• Class K contributors with nil PRSI liability.