asked the Minister for Social Welfare what benefits a person who had been in receipt of a salary of £800 or over, whose previous insurance was not effective and who became compulsorily insurable on 6th September, 1965, is entitled to; and on what date he will qualify for such benefits.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Compulsory Insurance Benefit.
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Every person who again became compulsorily insurable for the full range of benefits available under the Social Welfare Acts following the raising of the income limit has been credited with employment contributions for a period sufficient to render him immediately eligible for unemployment, disability and treatment benefits. The contributions so credited will not, however, reckon for the purposes of widows' and orphans' contributory pensions or old age contributory pensions, as title to those benefits could have been preserved on a voluntary basis. Persons who failed to become voluntary contributors will not re-establish title to the benefits mentioned until they have paid sufficient employment contributions to satisfy the statutory conditions.