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How did Norris qualify for disability?

irishdude11 · 2011-10-05 16:38:53

Can someone explain to me how someone getting a €61K a year salary, not including EXPENSES qualifies for disability allowance?? Norris is a disgrace.

05-10-2011 4:38pm

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Means test

Disability Allowance is a means-tested payment. To get the allowance your total means must be below a certain amount. The main items that count as means are:
Cash income that you or your spouse/civil partner/cohabitant may have. More information is available in our document about cash income not included in the means test.

Capital, for example, the value of savings, investments, shares, any property you may have (other than your own home). However, the first €50,000 of any capital you have is not taken into account. More information is available in our document about capital and social welfare payments.

Maintenance paid to you. More information is available in our document about how maintenance is assessed as means.

Can someone explain to me how someone getting a €61K a year salary, not including EXPENSES qualifies for disability allowance?? Norris is a disgrace.

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#2 05-10-2011 4:42pm

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irishdude11 wrote: »

Can someone explain to me how someone getting a €61K a year salary, not including EXPENSES qualifies for disability allowance?? Norris is a disgrace.

He's not on disability allowance from the state.

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#3 05-10-2011 4:42pm

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Simple answer is he did not.

He did get a payment either direct from trinity as he was not fit to perform his duties, or the payment was from an insurance policy which would have been an income protection policy, which pays out a maximum of 75% of your salary or less if you are able to do other work. I believe after reading the TCD statement it was in fact an insurance payment, as they mention an outside company. From the Irish Times

“The college can confirm that Senator Norris worked as a lecturer in Trinity College from 1968 and he retired at normal retirement age in September 2009,” it said. “In general, income protection insurers, who operate independently of the college, have rigorous medical assessment processes in place for the initial and continuing admittance of claims to their income protection schemes.”

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/1005/breaking18.html

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#4 05-10-2011 4:43pm

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It wasn't State Disability - it was from Trinity. Just as well TCD is not State funded. Oh, wait

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#5 05-10-2011 4:43pm

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Thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056411188 here.

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#6 05-10-2011 4:46pm

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he's limp wristed

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#7 05-10-2011 7:34pm

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Answer is in thread linked & this isn't going anywhere, so closing

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