Oltre 600.000 euro di benessere sociale pagato inavvertitamente ai prigionieri negli ultimi due anni
https://www.thejournal.ie/e600000-social-welfare-paid-to-prisoners-6776978-Jul2025/
di SpottedAlpaca
Oltre 600.000 euro di benessere sociale pagato inavvertitamente ai prigionieri negli ultimi due anni
https://www.thejournal.ie/e600000-social-welfare-paid-to-prisoners-6776978-Jul2025/
di SpottedAlpaca
12 commenti
Making crime pay.
Waiting for the comments regarding how the waste is very little and other countries doing it worse…
>There were a total of €303,000 in overpayments last year, of which around €160,000 has already been recovered.
of which near half they have recovered
>In 2023, just under €304,000 was paid to people behind bars with nearly €228,000 – or around three quarters of the total – recouped for the taxpayer.
and which near all have been recovered in 2023
“People who have been overpaid social welfare have a liability to refund the overpayment as they have been in receipt of a payment to which they were not entitled.”
I can imagine them rushing to pay this back
Probably pretty difficult and not exactly the number one priority for prisoners to contact the DSP to inform them they won’t be needing their social welfare.
At 355 individuals and €303,000 last year it comes to about 850 euro each, or four weeks of social welfare payments on average.
I mean, that’s not a lot over two years. No surprise it was missed initally, it’s a rounding error.
What a non-story. Payments not been cancelled as soon as someone goes into prison and later being recovered.
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Robbers!
Anything is possible in the public sector – think I might send in a few invoices for a 100K to a few different departments for consultancy work. Bound to get paid by one or two of them without anyone twigging
Aww ffs
there are 163,000 vacant homes in this country.