Occupational injury benefit payment delay
The claimant received disability benefit while the workplace accident was investigated; after confirmation, injury benefit was allowed from the accident date and an adjusting cheque was issued.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare the reason for the delay in paying social welfare benefit to a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Comment on this
The person concerned claimed occupational injury benefit on 3 November 1982, in respect of an incapacity resulting from an accident at work on 30 October 1982.
Pending the completion of investigation of the accident, he was awarded disability benefit as an interim measure from 4 November 1982, the fourth day of incapacity. Pay-related benefit was also awarded from 15 November, the thirteenth day of incapacity.
Following confirmation of the occupational accident, injury benefit was allowed from the date of the accident and an adjusting cheque was issued on 16 February 1983 for the additional benefit payable over and above the amounts already paid for the period from 30 October 1982 to 10 February 1983.
In error the claim was then closed with effect from 11 February 1983. Unfortunately, there was delay in re-opening the claim when further medical certification arrived. The claim was re-opened on 9 March 1983 and outstanding benefit was paid on 15 March 1983. The claimant has now been paid to 14 May 1983, the date of the latest medical certificate received.
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