Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 8 November 2018
276. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person transfers from invalidity pension to partial capacity in order to take up casual employment, the flexibilities there are in terms of payment of weeks in which few or no working hours have been secured. [46360/18]
View answerPartial Capacity Benefit (PCB) is a social welfare scheme which allows a person to return to work or self-employment (if they have reduced capacity to work) and continue to receive a payment from the Department.
PCB does not currently have the flexibility to uplift payments in a week where little or no work has been available to the customer. However, the scheme is entirely voluntary and a customer is entitled to withdraw their PCB claim at any time and return to their previous entitlement under the Illness Benefit or Invalidity Pension Schemes.
If the Deputy has a particular case in mind, he should bring it to my Department's attention and my officials will investigate it further.
I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
