Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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96. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an overpayment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3567/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned incurred a carer’s allowance debt amounting to €14,436.20 from 2 December 2010 to 11 January 2012. She had recently been repaying this debt by way of a €10.00 weekly deduction from her jobseeker’s allowance (JA). To date €2,052.80 has been repaid leaving a balance outstanding of €12,383.40.

As the person concerned was recently awarded disability allowance (DA), her repayments from JA stopped. On 7 December 2016 a letter issued to her proposing to recover the balance of her debt by weekly deductions of €28.20 from her DA. The person concerned was offered the opportunity to comment on these recovery proposals.

Following contact from her, a letter was issued on 24 January 2017 informing her that weekly deductions of €10.00 per week will commence on 1 February 2017 from her DA.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.