I don't understand. Why is increased control checks on SW payments an inefficiency? Surely this increased checking up is a result of the amoutn of fraud uncovered in the previous mailshot exercise?
This is especially more important now, seeing as so many are heading home to their own countries.. The amount of people who have their irish bank accounts left open, and benefits being put in must be huge!
Because is it less than a year since we got the first.
They also appear to sent to only sent to people who appear to be 'non Irish' on your database. This could be viewed as being racist and may also be a breach of the Data Protection Acts, on the grounds that data is being used for proposed it was not originally intended for.
It is not just the 'non nationals' who are leaving. I know of a number of Irish families who left over a year ago when the building work started to dry up.
Thats true too of course, also welfare fraud in 2007, was 13.9% by foreign nationals and 1.3% by irish citizens so thats another reason why maybe people who are non-irish might be getting targetted.
It's 1.7% for Irish citizens.....http://www.independent.ie/national-news/clampdown-on-child-benefit-fraud-1335747.htmlWhere in the world did you get that statistic?
There are over half a million families getting CB for a million kids. In 2008, 70,000 to 100,000 letters issued to targeted groups of people, that's 20% of claimants. This year, another 100,000 letters will issue, including reviewing of 'Irish citizens', which some posters seem to think are exempt from reviews of this nature.
It's 1.7% for Irish citizens.....http://www.independent.ie/national-news/clampdown-on-child-benefit-fraud-1335747.html
It's 1.7% for Irish citizens.....http://www.independent.ie/national-news/clampdown-on-child-benefit-fraud-1335747.html
Welfarite,
This is the second letter we got in less than a year. I have checked at work and no one else has ever gotten one. Where is this 100k letters coming from, sending out 50k to the same people twice a year? To be honest I always thought that paying children’s allowance via EFT was wide open to abuse and I was involved in writing some of the software to do it!
What survey are they referring to? That's the actual source. Also, we don't know if this refers to child benefit fraud and, if so, the figures will be skewed towards non-nationals because, as is being discussed here, non-nationals (or, more to the point, people with non-national-sounding names) are being sent more of these enforcement notices than the Mary Byrnes.
I highly doubt if that statistic can actually be backed up by any "survey", regardless of what the Indo prints. If so, then we'd all know who was committing welfare fraud and it could be 100% stamped out, which it obviously isn't.
The figures came from a DSW press release, quoting figures from the Control Section of the department.
That would never happen nor would sending mutiple letters for health appointments to dead people for years.Welfarite,
Where is this total of 100k letters coming from, sending out 50k to the same people twice a year?
That would never happen nor would sending mutiple letters for health appointments to dead people for years.
Maybe you just came up on two targeted lists, computer selected? I don't know.
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