Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)
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493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of one parent family payments that were referred to social welfare inspectors for further investigation or which required further information in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form; and the number of payments that were disallowed as a result in 2018, 2019 and 2020. [44197/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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All schemes administered by the Department – including the One parent Family Payment (OFP) - are subject to control reviews and eligibility checks. This is a normal feature of my Department’s control work on schemes and payments.

The numbers of OFP claims referred to Social Welfare Inspectors (SWI) for further investigations which required further review in the years 2018 to 2020 are outlined in Table 1 below. The numbers of claims disallowed or where the payment rate was adjusted following SWI reviews for those years are also shown in the table.

Table 1:

I trust that this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)
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494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of working family payments that were referred to social welfare inspectors for further investigation or which required further information in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form; and the number of payments that were disallowed as a result in 2018, 2019 and 2020. [44198/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I am advised that data on the number of Working Family Payment (WFP) customers that were referred to Social Welfare Inspectors or which required further information for the years 2018 to 2020 is not collated by the Department. Similarly, data is not collated on the number of disallowed WFP applications following any such referral.

I regret that the Department is not in a position to provide the information sought by the Deputy in this instance.