Written answers

Tuesday, 15 February 2005

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Pension Provisions

9:00 pm

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 314: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 259 of 28 October 2004 the amount recovered each year since and including 2000 following the assessment of overpayments of means tested pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4917/05]

Photo of Séamus BrennanSéamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The number of means-tested pension cases where my Department assessed overpayments against the estates of deceased pensioners since 2000 with the value of overpayments recovered from those estates is as follows;

Year Number of Cases Value of overpayments recovered
2000 508 £3,463,606.00
2001 442 £4,541,903.00
2002 406â'¬5,016,542.40
2003 388â'¬5,081,195.49
2004 335â'¬5,462,235.46
2005 (January) 18â'¬272,874.69

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