asked the Minister for Social Welfare why a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been paid occupational injury benefit on a regular basis; and why her Department did not reply to correspondence from the individual in question.

The person concerned has been in receipt of disablement benefit under the occupational injuries scheme since 4 May 1973. She is at present being paid a disablement pension at the rate appropriate to a degree of disablement of 20 per cent. The pension is paid by cheques which are issued at four weekly intervals in advance. An examination of the payment record shows that all payments have issued regularly on the due dates. The latest cheque issued on 5 November 1981 and represented payment due in respect of the period 6 November 1981 to 3 December 1981. No correspondence has been received from the person concerned in connection with the claim since 1976. However I have arranged that an inspector of my Department will visit her at an early date with a view to ascertaining what payments have not been received by her on the due dates and to establish the reason for the irregularity, if any, in the receipt of the payments.

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