Social Welfare Eligibility
Dail Éireann — 2022-03-22
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Mick Barry (PBP), Cork North-Central

What measures will the Minister take to ensure that refugees from Ukraine will be able to have access to social protection entitlements? Will the Department adapt the usual rules that would require the furnishing of documentation to prove eligibility for certain payments such as medical records or training and employment records given the difficulty of obtaining them from Ukraine? Will she recognise the accrual of social insurance payments in Ukraine towards eligibility for benefits here as is the case with those coming from elsewhere in the EU? Will her Department provide information and assistance, including translated material and access to interpreters, to allow Ukrainians to access payments?

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Sitting date: 2022-03-22