Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
I already covered a bit of this with Deputy Cassells. The situation is that these are all non-contributory pensioners. They are means-tested pensioners. They are people who, at the time they made the claim, satisfied the means test, but 20 years later because their circumstances changed, they no longer satisfy the means test. People's circumstances change even in retirement because they bequeath wills and so on. Their income changes. That does affect their entitlement.
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