Dental visits and PRSI

Hi all,

Just wondering would my husband be covered by my PRSI contribitions for his dental visits. I am paying PRSI for donkeys years now so I am fully covered whereas he is not according to his dentist. He had his own business and closed it in 2005 and has been in the same job as an employee for just over 2 years now paying his full PRSI.

He needs alot of work done and it's costing a fortune and I thought part of it would be covered by PRSI contributions. Apparantly he cannot use mine?.

Can someone tell me the rules as regards this. Many Thanks.

All the info you need is on the SW website:

Treatment Benefit Scheme

It is true that a spouses cannot share PRSI credits for the purposes of Treatment Benefit (or most or all other SW PRSI linked benefits?). And he was probably on Class S PRSI while self-employed and this does not cover the same benefits as Class A and he probably does not have the required cumulative/continuous Class A contributions yet.

Your husband could claim as a dependant spouse, if he wasn't working. Unfortunatly, what Clubman posted agrees with my own experiance.