Payment stopped after child turned 18
A computer error failed to remove a payment stop applied when the claimant’s child turned 18; the error was corrected and payments resumed.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare when disability benefit which is due since 14 March, 1981 will be paid to a person (details supplied).
Comment on this
The person concerned has been claiming disability benefit since 1973 and has been paid at the maximum appropriate rate to 16 May 1981.
Disability benefit issued regularly on the same day each week up to the beginning of March. As a child reached 18 years on 6 March 1981 payment stopped automatically at that point to enable adjustment to be made in the weekly rate of payment. The adjustment in payment was made but, due to an error, the stop date was not deleted from the computer system. The error was rectified and payment due to 4 April 1981 issued on 3 April. Payment has since issued regularly each week.
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