Partial Capacity Benefit (PCB) is a social welfare scheme which allows a person return to employment if they have a reduced capacity for work and to continue to receive a payment from my department. A person who applies for PCB will, in the first instance, be assessed by a Medical Assessor who assesses the degree of partial capacity.
Following a medical assessment the person concerned was assessed as having a severely reduced capacity for work. The corresponding personal rate of PCB is therefore 75% of the personal rate of invalidity pension which they are receiving. In accordance with the regulations of the scheme, the full personal rate of invalidity pension could not be paid in respect of the weeks when the person concerned is in employment.