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
Mr. John McKeon:
Yes, and I will explain why. We have always had an identity card in the Department. Previously, it was the social services card. Most of the cost of the public services card, PSC, is incurred in its production, and would have been incurred anyway because we would have been paying for the social services card to be produced.
So far, we have identified approximately 220 cases of identity fraud using the PSC.
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