Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 May 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 16 - Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 17 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 18 - Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 19 - Domiciliary Care Allowance
Chapter 20 - Invalidity Pension
Social Insurance Fund Annual Accounts 2012

12:25 pm

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

Yes.

There are 22,971 customers using the weekly deduction at source facility. At the end of 2013, we had deducted €1.9 million. Obviously, €1.5 million was deducted at the end of March. The expected deduction over the course of this year will be €6 million. The schemes from which people have asked us to make deductions are the contributory and non-contributory State pension, the widow's or surviving partner's contributory and non-contributory pension, the blind pension, the invalidity pension, one parent family payment, carer's allowance and disability allowance. We did not extend the facility at the time to people who were in receipt of jobseeker's benefit because of the churn on the live register.

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