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:
The main issue there would be payments to community employment schemes, local employment services, job clubs and so on, which we fund in advance. The other big payment that is a scheme pre-payment there would be child benefit. The reason it increased a lot at the end of 2018 compared to 2017 was that the payment date for child benefit fell for 2019 just after New Year's Day so we brought it forward into 2018. That would be by far the biggest amount.
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