Overpayment of Welfare

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The C&AG has reported that people on welfare payments such as Family Income Supplement were far more likely to be reviewed than people in receipt of State pensions.
Form the Irish Independent;
"The C&AG found that some welfare recipients like those on working family payments and one parent family payments were subject to "high review intensity" but the average overpayments - €20 and €72 respectively - was low compared to other schemes. The overpayments occurred in less than 5pc of the cases reviewed in both schemes.

In contrast some schemes with relatively low levels of review resulted in high levels of overpayment.

A total of 8pc of pension claimants were reviewed in 2019 with 20pc of the probes detecting an overpayment - the average sum standing at €770. The proportion of overpayments of the 2pc of invalidity pension claimants was even higher at 68pc."


This looks like a disgraceful bias against that the Department of Social Protection seems to think is a group of lowlifes whereas in fact Pensioners are far more likely to be gaming the system.
 
Over payments of €20 (is that weekly or for the entire period of the review) are as likely to be mistakes as gaming the system. Mistakes which could be the fault of the dept. as easily as the payee.
 
Over payments of €20 (is that weekly or for the entire period of the review) are as likely to be mistakes as gaming the system. Mistakes which could be the fault of the dept. as easily as the payee.
The issue is why are they going after those who receive the least and are least likely to get more than is due rather than those who receive most and are most likely to get more than they are due?
 
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