Disability benefit payment delay
The Minister said the claimant received disability benefit through 24 January 1983, having been certified fit to return to work thereafter, and also received pay-related benefit.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not been paid disability benefit as the final medical certificate was submitted on 25 January 1983 and the first certificate was submitted on 28 December 1982; if he will investigate the reason the certificates were mislaid; and the reason he has not yet been paid even though he has submitted duplicate certificates.
Comment on this
The person concerned was paid disability benefit on 24 March 1983 in respect of the period from 31 December 1982, fourth day of incapacity, to 24 January 1983, after which date he was certified fit to resume work. He was also paid pay-related benefit from 11 January 1983, the thirteenth day of incapacity for work.
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