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:
It has substantially improved, and the system is showing that it will improve further because we are able to identify and record the overpayment much more quickly into the history of it, so we are recovering overpayments almost immediately. The Deputy will remember as well that previously we were limited in the amount we could recover from payments. I think it was €2 a week. There was a change in the law about two years ago to allow us to go to 15%.