Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Ms Kathleen Stack:
Over the past year, we have done an extensive exercise on our legacy debt. s a result, we have written off a substantial level of old debt with the approval of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. In the past year, we have written off €41.5 million in old legacy debt associated with pre-2011 overpayments. In each of these cases, the value of the debt was less than €10,000 and no repayment had been collected since 2015. We wrote off €41.5 million in just over 33,000 cases.
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