asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will arrange for disability benefit to be paid to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 who has been severely burned in an accident and who applied for same in June last.
Written Answers. - Disability Benefit.
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Where a claimant has 39 but less than 260 contributions paid at the appropriate rate since entry into insurable employment, payment of disability benefit is limited to 52 weeks. Payment of disability benefit can only be made for a continuous period longer than 52 weeks where the person has at least 260 such contributions paid.
The person concerned claimed disability benefit from 18 June 1987. Payment of benefit was authorised for a maximum of 52 weeks as the person concerned had only 159 contributions paid. He exhausted this title to payment on 18 June 1988.
In order to requalify for payment, the person concerned would need to obtain a further 13 weeks of insurable employment, for which the appropriate contributions have been paid.