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Illness benefit

  • 18-11-2016 9:53am
    #1
    aidanki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭


    My housemate arrived here from the Czech republic Last august.

    Within one week she was working all going well, paying PRSI, she has 6 weeks of PRSI payed in total.

    At end of September she destroyed knee ligaments playing basketball and hasn't been able to work since, the doctor is providing sick certs.

    Should she be entitled to some illness benefit while she is off sick ? She hopes to be able to go back to work week after next.

    She has been paying PRSI in Czech Republic for years


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  • #2
    hawthorne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭hawthorne


    aidanki wrote: »
    My housemate arrived here from the Czech republic Last august.

    Within one week she was working all going well, paying PRSI, she has 6 weeks of PRSI payed in total.

    At end of September she destroyed knee ligaments playing basketball and hasn't been able to work since, the doctor is providing sick certs.

    Should she be entitled to some illness benefit while she is off sick ? She hopes to be able to go back to work week after next.

    She has been paying PRSI in Czech Republic for years

    Yes- she can claim IB- under the condition that she has paid all her contributions in the Czech Republic in full during the last 3 years. She can pool her Czech contributions and the short Irish period. She fails if she has not paid long enough in the Czech Republic.Same regulations as for any Irish person:

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/disability_and_illness/disability_benefit.html

    Unfortunately it will take some time to get her payment. The Czech DoSP will be contacted and the whole thing will be stuck in the bureaucracy in two countries.Things can be a bit faster in providing her Czech social insurance number to the Irish DoSP.
    She will get her money in the end, all backpaid, if she follows all the rules set out for Irish claimants.
    She cannot claim SWA to tie her over because she does not satisfy the HRC. For the time being she is fully on her own.

    Checking out direct entitlements from Czech Republic might be a way out as well. Some countries cover emmigrants for a time abroad and transfer money. Look up webpage from Czech SW or ask the embassy in Dublin.


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