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
Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Lead times are long, even for disability allowance, yet potentially one claimant in five is getting excess payments. That is also concerning. If the Department takes time to adjudicate yet has a high incidence of awarding incorrect payments at the end of this lengthy process, that is a concern.
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