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Disability pension or disability allowance

  • 02-06-2014 8:04pm
    #1
    mille100piedi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭


    My illness benefit will end in July and I receive a form from the welfare asking me to apply for Disability pension or Disability allowance. I can't find any explanation of the differences between the two benefits. I am under investigation for a rare genetic metabolic disorder, my body can't make enough energy from the food I eat. The disorder is affecting my muscles causing mobility problem, for which benefits I should apply?


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  • #2
    mrsbyrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    mille100piedi wrote: »
    My illness benefit will end in July and I receive a form from the welfare asking me to apply for Disability pension or Disability allowance. I can't find any explanation of the differences between the two benefits. I am under investigation for a rare genetic metabolic disorder, my body can't make enough energy from the food I eat. The disorder is affecting my muscles causing mobility problem, for which benefits I should apply?

    Apply for both immediately. Hopefully you will get one of them but your going to have to supply plenty of evidence as to why your condition prevents you from working. Its. Unlikely you will have had a response from either claim before your Illness Benefit ends in July so time is of the essence for you.
    BTW its Invalidity Pension not Disability Pension. Very best of luck with that.


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