Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 January 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund
9:30 am
Mr. John McKeon:
We have looked at them and taken them on board. The replacement rates, if I can put it that way, vary between 50% and 80% but then, we cannot just look at the replacement rates. Nearly all of them have a cap and nearly all of them have durations of payment. Therefore, we have to look at the duration of payment versus the payment. Not to talk about pay related benefit, but to give the Chairman an example-----
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