Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
I received replies to parliamentary questions relating to the number of people on a welfare payment who had a penalty applied in each of the years from 2012 to 2016. It has been growing. In 2012, when a much larger number of people were getting a welfare payment, it was 1,500 and in 2016 it was 10,000. Does JobPath play a role in that? In the first number of weeks there is a 44% reduction-----
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