asked the Minister for Social Welfare if a person (details supplied) in County Wexford who is in receipt of unemployment benefit is entitled to any pay-related benefit payment.
Written Answers. - Social Welfare Benefits.
482.
The entitlement of the person concerned to pay-related benefit with his flat rate unemployment benefit is governed by his reckonable earnings during the income tax period 6 April 1982 to 5 April 1983. According to records of the Department his total earnings during that period amounted to £234.26 and as this amount was less than the earnings floor pay-related benefit is not payable in his case.
483.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick is not in receipt of his correct pay-related benefits; and when this position will be corrected.
The entitlement of the person concerned to pay-related benefit with his flat rate unemployment benefit is governed by the amount of his reckonable earnings during the relevant income tax period 6 April 1983 to 5 April 1984. According to the records of the Department his reckonable earnings were £8,941 and he is entitled to pay-related benefit at £33.96 weekly. Combined payments of £114.11 weekly representing the maximum flat rate unemployment benefit appropriate to him £80.15 and pay-related benefit £33.96 continue to be made to him as they become due.