Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 May 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013

10:00 am

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

There is a weekly figure. For jobseeker's allowance, what I have available to me is a gross figure rather than a net figure. The gross fraud and error amount is about €937 per claim per week, implying a weekly amount of fraud or error in the population of €2.998 million within a confidence level.