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:
That would be the intention. As to what we intend to do with PUP - and we will be sending letters out fairly soon to people on a rolling basis - most of the overpayments are probably a couple of hundred euro rather than thousands. We will offer them the opportunity either to repay or to agree a repayment plan with us. Now people can pay online. We do not take credit card payments but we will take bank card payments. They can go online and pay or we will agree an instalment plan with them. If they cannot do that, we will probably say, "That is fine when it comes to-----