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This is a report on the results of a review of the extent to which certain information received was screened and referred to local offices for further investigation and the results of those investigations. The information reviewed in the course of audit related to Jobseekers payments.

This is a report on the results of a review of the effectiveness of controls to prevent and detect invalid claiming in respect of Jobseekers payments, Invalidity Pension and Disability Allowance and the Department’s progress in implementing a risk rating mechanism.

This is a report on the Regularity of Social Welfare Payments. The Department of Social Protection is required to ensure that expenditure it incurs has been applied for the purposes for which the money was made available by Dáil Éireann, and its financial transactions conform with the authorities290, under which they purport to have been carried out. Financial transactions are considered to be ‘regular’ when both of these conditions are satisfied.

This is a report that outlines the trends in the level of overpayments recorded, the extent to which the Department of Social Protection has subsequently recovered those overpayments and the extent to which the Department institutes legal proceedings either to prosecute fraud cases or to recover amounts due from claimants.

This is a report that consolidates and summarises expenditure on welfare and employment schemes met from various public accounts, setting out the source of the funds applied over the past four years, together with 2011 estimates.

The management of One Parent Family Payment claims in two local offices was examined. The main aims of the examination were to verify, based on examination of a random sample of OPFP cases, that the payments made were correct and conformed to the scheme conditions, to assess if the controls over OPFP are adequate, given the nature of the scheme, and that they are being applied as intended and to confirm that where payments in excess of OPFP entitlements are detected, they are recorded as overpayment debts and are recovered to the maximum extent possible.

In this Report the management of claims under the State Pension (Non-Contributory) scheme was examined. The main aims of the examination were, to verify, based on examination of a random sample of cases, that the payments made under the scheme were correct and conformed to the scheme conditions, to assess if the controls over the payments are adequate, given the nature of the scheme, and that they are being applied as intended and to confirm that where payments in excess of entitlements are detected, they are recovered to the maximum extent possible.

This report examines the Department’s debt management and criminal prosecution processes to establish its effectiveness in identifying, recording and recovering welfare payment debts, and in prosecuting fraud cases.

The evidence in relation to the incidence of excess payment of social welfare was examined with a view to establishing the overall scale of the problem, and the implications for the regularity of expenditure reported in the accounts of the Vote for Social and Family Affairs and of the Social Insurance Fund. The examination also reviewed the adequacy of the measures used by the Department in relation to its performance in managing the risks of excess payment, and the effectiveness of its control activity.

This report summarises expenditure on social welfare from the various accounts, indicating the source and application of the funds applied over the past four years, together with 2010 projections.