Disability and pay-related benefit delay
All benefit due through 9 May was issued after supplementary welfare assistance was reimbursed; the claimant’s use of an insurance number also contributed to delay.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare the reason for the delay in the payment of pay-related and disability benefits to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford.
Comment on this
The person concerned claimed disability benefit from 2 March 1981 and was paid from that date at the maximum appropriate rate. All disability benefit and pay-related benefit due to 9 May 1981 has issued.
There was some delay in payment from 20 April 1981, as notification was received from the health board indicating that supplementary welfare allowance had been advanced to him. When it was established that the amount advanced has been refunded, arrears of benefit issued.
He is contributing to delay in payment as he continues to quote his insurance number only on medical certificates submitted in support of his claim, despite the fact that he was requested to quote the RSI number.
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