Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
Generally, we review family income supplement, FIS, once a year so when somebody gets into a FIS payment, or a working family payment as it is called now, we review it on an annual basis. We ask them to notify us if there are any material changes in their circumstances. If they do not and they continue to get a family income supplement payment, if they have an entitlement to another benefit we would generally net it off. We would not-----