Outstanding disability and pay-related benefits
O’Keeffe asked about unpaid benefits for a South West Cork claimant. Hussey said all amounts due had been paid and that statutory waiting days meant no benefit was payable for the disputed periods; the remaining questions were listed for written reply.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare whether he will arrange to have outstanding pay-related and disability benefits paid to a person (details supplied) in South West Cork.
Comment on this
The person concerned, who had been in receipt of unemployment benefit to 13 August 1980, claimed disability benefit from 19 August 1980 and was paid from 22 August 1980, the fourth day of incapacity. She was paid pay-related benefit from 2 September 1980.
She was not entitled to payment of disability benefit for the first three days of her claim nor to pay-related benefit for the first 12 days. These periods are waiting days for which no benefit is payable where the interval between two claims to benefit exceeds three days. There is, therefore, no benefit outstanding in respect of the periods referred to by the Deputy.
