Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments

11:30 am

Mr. John McKeon:

It varies by scheme. We generally pick 1,000 claims at random. We then write to the people with those claims and ask them to update any changes. We then take a sub-sample of those and ask inspectors to carry out a review of some of the cases where there are issues arising. In medical schemes we might ask the person to see a medical assessor. It varies, but predominantly it is desk based. There would be in every case-----

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