Social welfare payments worth over €115 million were found to have been wrongly paid
to citizens last year with six people having received more than €200,000 in benefit payments they were not entitled to.
In one case, a person was paid an enormous €271,046 they weren’t eligible for through a non-contributory state pension. Another person received €265,484 that they will have to repay after over-payment under the same state pension scheme. There were five further over-payments of between €189,245 and €215,309, all of which related to the non-contributory state pension.
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