The Department of Social Protection said 71,121 cases were discovered last year where people had received more money than they should have.
Another person wrongly received €299,989 in jobseekers allowance while a similar case involving the same type of payment was valued at €282,881. Incorrect payments worth €262,207 were made under the one parent family allowance in another case uncovered last year.
The department said the larger figures generally involved “irregular payments over a number of years” which were uncovered last year.An information note said: “Recoveries refer to the amount recovered in that year, but the debt may not necessarily have been raised in that year.” He added that anti-fraud and control measures were in place to identify such cases and to recover the money and pursue prosecutions where appropriate.
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