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This chapter reports the results of a review of the Department of Social Protections progress in relation to the introduction of a risk based control policy in relation to Supplementary Welfare allowance.

This is a report reviewing the extent to which the rural support scheme output and contribution has been evaluated and the results reported and the results of on-site reviews by the Office.

This is a report outlining the deficiencies in the bank reconciliation processes noted on audit and the shortcomings in arrangements to independently confirm balances due to An Post, in the Department of Social Protection.

This is a report examining the extent to which the savings measure used to report review effectiveness in the Department of Social Protection is evidence based, from the viewpoint of recoverability and bankable savings, the return from review activities would be maximised in conditions where the greatest amount of overpayments possible was listed for recovery and actually recovered.

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.