Ó Cuív admits €65m welfare overpayment

godscop

Minister for Social Protection Éamon Ó Cuív has admitted that his Department overpaid customers by at least €65 million last year alone.:mad:

Adam

rabble rabble rabble.

stovelid

KILL THEM ALL

Ruu_Old

Give their backsides a good thrashing! O_q

jimthemental

Well he didn't fcuking overpay me:mad:

phasers

I used to go into the dole office once, get my money, then go outside, put on a fake moustache and go back in as my twin brother. Worked every time.

Biggins

How do you over pay by 65 million?

KTRIC

That money was just resting in my account :rolleyes:

El Horseboxo

Money can get lost in brown envelopes.

biko

Next thread better have a link as backup.

Rumour lock.

biko

I was PMd the link.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1125/ocuive.html

thread reopened.

Crann na Beatha

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starbelgrade

Obaraten wrote: »

Is anyone genuinely surprised?

Me. Look... :eek:

FreudianSlippers

biko wrote: »

I was PMd the link.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1125/ocuive.html

thread reopened.

It was me. You can all thank me later!

Sherifu

FREE MONEY!

Duggy747

:eek:

I didn't get my €65 million during one of my dole visits.

Hmmm, might explain how I managed to afford my Bugatti Veyron from just my dole :pac:

stimpson

Obaraten wrote: »

Is anyone genuinely surprised?

I'm surprised it wasn't more.

DrumSteve

Inanimate Carbon Rod.


That is all.

Synchronicity

"Customers" :pac:

MagicSean

Was that him on Joe Duffy saying there wasn't that much welfare fraud and it probably only amounted to two hundred million?

Wompa1

Give me just 1,000,000 a year salary and I will dramatically reduce the amount of fraudsters. Granted I may have radical tactics and some people who weren't committing fraud and I merely expected they were would have to go hungry..but eh, can't argue with results!

phill106

Not surprised with the dole tourism going on

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ash-cloud-crisis-exposes-welfare-tourists-2245558.html

Boxoffrogs

I wonder what the figure for the underpayment i.e. people not being paid according to their entitlementswas this time around. These figures are usually published at the same time, yet there is no mention of them in the media. The last time I saw these figures published the overpayment and underpayment totals were nearly identical.

Call me a cynic but this stinks of government leaking just the information they want so as to divert attention away from themselves when the heat is on.

BTW I hate welfare fraudsters just as much as the next guy.

amacachi

Biggins wrote: »

How do you over pay by 65 million?

Out of what, 15 billion? It wouldn't be too hard.

diddledum wrote: »

I wonder what the figure for the underpayment i.e. people not being paid according to their entitlementswas this time around. These figures are usually published at the same time, yet there is no mention of them in the media. The last time I saw these figures published the overpayment and underpayment totals were nearly identical.

Call me a cynic but this stinks of government leaking just the information they want so as to divert attention away from themselves when the heat is on.

BTW I hate welfare fraudsters just as much as the next guy.

Yup, I know more than one person who thought they were being overpaid, reported it and were told to shut up basically. :pac: I on the other hand have missed a week in each of the last two years when switching what payment I was getting, which shouldn't have happened under their own rules.

Nolanger

How much last year was paid in child benefit to children living outside of Ireland?

Mike 1972

People seem to be confusing overpayments resulting from officials b@lls$ng up payment calculations with actual fraud on the part of receipiants.

Dunno about Ireland but In the UK the former is reckoned to cost as much as the latter.

gsxr1

how much of that is people arriving via ryan air , collecting and departing via ryan air the same day.

Makes me sick how we continue to let people steal our money

dxhound2005

Only for the oil industry around the border it would be the only source of income.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/dole-tourist-towns-have-more-claims-than-people-1664609.html

PeterIanStaker

I think he's just saying this to divert attention off the billions owed in our loan (not a bailout) , whats a few more million at this stage, would be his mindset.

mickydoomsux

Doesn't even vaguely surprise me.

We have the most well-off poor people in the EU in this country.

Terry

Don't worry, folks. Prayer wil get us through this. http://www.highlandradio.com/2010/11/20/minister-urges-public-to-pray-things-do-not-get-worse/