asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will introduce legislation to ensure that a disabled person, who is in want, is not deprived of disability benefit and home assistance merely because he is receiving shelter in a health authority institution.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers - Payments to Disabled Persons.
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Although disability benefit is not payable to an insured person while in an institution maintained by a health authority it accrues to his credit and there is provision for payment at regular intervals of advances of benefit for the purchase of extra comforts. Alternatively, the benefit may, at the request of the insured person, be paid in whole or in part to a dependant.
A person receiving shelter in a health authority institution is not statutorily debarred from receiving home assistance.