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:
I will ask Mr. Daly to come in on this, but it is mainly through our own work. We conduct approximately 600,000 to 650,000 what we call control surveys each year. Where we identify, we write out to people and ask them to update their circumstances and inspectors will look at it. Much of it is out of that. We have real-time look-ups with Revenue employment information where we identify people who maybe have gone back to employment but have not closed their jobseeker claim. It is mainly through those mechanisms. Does Mr. Daly want to expand on that?