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. Liam Daly:

It is basically that. The overpayments fall into the categories of customer error, suspected fraud, official error or the estate cases. In terms of customer error, that would be where a person has failed to notify us in a timely manner of a change in his or her circumstances. We will pick up on that from our own investigative actions looking at, say, Revenue returns and so on. That is what is driving that.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.