Disability benefit adjusted after employer inquiry
After the employer confirmed an earlier illness absence, the Department issued an adjustment for the disability benefit due.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare the reason for the delay in the payment of disability benefit to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford.
Comment on this
The person concerned claimed disability benefit and submitted medical evidence of incapacity from 10 June 1981. He was paid at the personal rate from 13 June to 20 June, after which date he was certified fit to resume work. As no first certificate or claim form was received from him it was necessary to make further inquiries as to the full period of his incapacity. It was ascertained from his employer that he had in fact been absent from work due to illness from 27 May and an adjustment cheque paying the balance of benefit due has issued to him.
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