Thanks Gervan and Papercut for responses
Papercut... that is a considerable saving for government... so i assume there is no way around this?...seems to be waste in my case as we are definitely staying in Ireland but how are they to know that.... I suppose we just have to continue to fill it in..Thanks again for info above
From the same link as I posted above http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2009-10-21.1046.0I am not Irish and i received this letter every 3 months but I have never been asked to have the form signed by my workplace - I just need to provide which school my child is attending and for the baby which creche or doctor i am using for her - Child benefit has nothing to do with my work so they should not ask the employer to sign anything in relation to it.
But what if the person is not working or claiming?It should be very simple for the dept of social welfare and revenue to cross reference... a simple database showing that a person (pps no.) has paid paye/prsi should be enough to stop the issue of this letter every 3 months
But if it works for those working then why annoy them with letters to prove they are here when it is clear they are here from PAYE/PRSI payments. Also there should be an administration saving
Yes there is an issue for those not working/claiming. Maybe another solution would be dept of education to link up with dept of social welfare. If dept of eduction has list of all kids in school via their pps number then why not pay them the child benefit... i know this only applies to those in school but again it would overall reduce the dept of social welfare admin costs. They would not have to send out letters to all those between 5 and 18 years that are resident here. One could even possibly assume that their younger brothers/sisters are also in ireland as I doubt very few families have kids split between countries
There is probably no clear solution for all parties but why not take a few solutions like above to cut back the paper mountain and associated administration costs. Then they can focus in on the few cases remaining to evaluate if they are justified or not. Maybe their are reasons for not implementing the above but I strongly believe there are means to improve efficiency between dept's.
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