36 Miss M. Wallace asked the Minister for Social Welfare if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly in his Department's regulations which require modification in that a self-employed person who commenced paying PRSI in 1988 but was over the age of 56 should be entitled to a refund of 53 per cent of his contributions whereas these are being withheld by his Department because the same applicant paid social insurance stamp contributions for two years in the 1950s and is therefore not entitled to a refund on the same basis as other self-employed contributors who came into the scheme in 1988 and who were over the age for qualifying for a pension; his views on whether self-employed contributors who came into the scheme in 1988 should be either entitled to payment of a pension or a refund; his further views on whether it is acceptable for his Department to refrain from either paying a pension or a refund of the contributions; the steps, if any, he will take to ensure a review of the regulations in order to modify these anomalies. [3212/95]

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36 Miss M. Wallace asked the Minister for Social Welfare if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly in his Department's regulations which require modification in that a self-employed person who commenced paying PRSI in 1988 but was over the age of 56 should be entitled to a refund of 53 per cent of his contributions whereas these are being withheld by his Department because the same applicant paid social insurance stamp contributions for two years in the 1950s and is therefore not entitled to a refund on the same basis as other self-employed contributors who came into the scheme in 1988 and who were over the age for qualifying for a pension; his views on whether self-employed contributors who came into the scheme in 1988 should be either entitled to payment of a pension or a refund; his further views on whether it is acceptable for his Department to refrain from either paying a pension or a refund of the contributions; the steps, if any, he will take to ensure a review of the regulations in order to modify these anomalies. [3212/95]

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1. 14 February 1995

   Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Old Age Contributory Pension Scheme.

   36 Miss M. Wallace asked the Minister for Social Welfare if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly in his Department's regulations which require modification in that a self-employed person who commenced paying PRSI in 1988 but was over the age of 56 should be entitled to a refund of 53 per cent of his contributions whereas these are being withheld by his Department because the same applicant paid social insurance stamp contributions for two years in the 1950s and is therefore not entitled to a refund on the same basis as other self-employed contributors who came into the scheme in 1988 and who were over the age for qualifying for a pension; his views on whether self-employed contributors who came into the scheme in 1988 should be either entitled to payment of a pension or a refund; his further views on whether it is acceptable for his Department to refrain from either paying a pension or a refund of the contributions; the steps, if any, he will take to ensure a review of the regulations in order to modify these anomalies. [3212/95]

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