Meath disability benefit appeal
A medical referee initially found the claimant fit for work, but an appeals officer decided he was incapable during 17–23 February 1983 and entitled to benefit for that period.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare why a person (details supplied) in County Meath was not paid disability benefit from 17 to 23 February 1983.
Comment on this
The person concerned claimed disability benefit from 27 May 1982 and was paid to 16 February 1983. Payment was disallowed after that date following examination by a medical referee who expressed the opinion that he was capable of work.
He appealed against the decision to disallow his claim to benefit but in the meantime he submitted a final certificate which certified him as fit to resume work on 24 February 1983. The case was then referred to an appeals officer who decided that the claimant was not capable of work during the period from 17 February 1983 to 23 February 1983 and is entitled to be paid disability benefit for that period.
A cheque for the arrears of benefit, less amount of supplementary welfare allowance advanced, was issued on 5 May 1983.
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