Pay-related benefit payment delay
The claimant’s earnings information was unavailable when he applied, delaying assessment; the Department obtained it from Revenue and paid all benefit due on 14 March 1983.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare the reason for the delay in paying pay-related benefit to a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Comment on this
The person concerned was paid disability benefit from 18 December 1982, fourth day of incapacity, to 12 February 1983, after which date he was certified fit to resume work.
Entitlement to pay-related benefit depended on the reckonable earnings of the claimant in the 1980-81 income tax year. These were not available to the Department at the time the claim to disability benefit was made. Details were however obtained from the office of the Revenue Commissioners and all pay-related benefit due was paid to the claimant on 14 March 1983.
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