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How long does Ilness Benefit take these days?

seanmacc · 2013-09-27 09:41:50

I was wondering does anyone know how long illness benefit is taking these days? My wife broke a bone in her foot on the 22nd of August and we got the doctors certs into social welfare about 3 or 4 days later. We got a letter from them early in September asking for a copy of my wife's passport or naturalization cert (she…

27-09-2013 09:41AM

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I was wondering does anyone know how long illness benefit is taking these days?

My wife broke a bone in her foot on the 22nd of August and we got the doctors certs into social welfare about 3 or 4 days later. We got a letter from them early in September asking for a copy of my wife's passport or naturalization cert (she recently became an Irish citizen) which we duly sent in.

You wouldn't want to be relying on the money, a month long wait is borderline on the ridiculous. Unfortunately she has returned to work and college at this point and is not in a position to ring them during office hours and I couldn't get through yesterday

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