# welfare-fraud - Friday 23 March, 2018
The couple claimed rent allowance to pay off a mortgage that the husband got under a false name.
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# welfare-fraud - Thursday 28 December, 2017
“It’s difficult to say in hindsight whether I would have run such a campaign or not,” says Minister Regina Doherty.
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# welfare-fraud - Tuesday 10 October, 2017
46-year-old Richard Burbridge committed the offences while operating a courier contract for the Courts Service.
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# welfare-fraud - Saturday 24 June, 2017
There have been 4,859 reports received by the department since 18 April, compared to 3,322 in the same period last year.
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# welfare-fraud - Sunday 18 June, 2017
No. No it didn’t.
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# welfare-fraud - Wednesday 31 May, 2017
Sinn Féin has called on the government to end this “dishonest welfare fraud campaign”.
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# welfare-fraud - Monday 15 May, 2017
The claims were made by a former department inspector today.
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# welfare-fraud - Tuesday 9 May, 2017
The provision is included in the Social Welfare Bill 2017, which was published today.
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# welfare-fraud - Monday 8 May, 2017
Carol Clarke claimed welfare payments under her sister’s name for 17 years.
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# welfare-fraud - Friday 5 May, 2017
The ‘Welfare Cheats Cheat Us All’ campaign is designed to encourage reporting of suspected or known social welfare fraud.
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Welfare rules often create poverty traps that make it tremendously difficult for people to get by without stepping outside the bounds, writes Gavin Mendel-Gleason.
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# welfare-fraud - Friday 6 November, 2015
“There is no penalty that is too harsh for the people that did this. The word horrific is not sufficient.”
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# welfare-fraud - Wednesday 15 October, 2014
He’s expected to appear in court in the next few hours.
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# welfare-fraud - Friday 26 September, 2014
There was also problems with HSE procurement and payments to farmers.
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# welfare-fraud - Thursday 24 April, 2014
The organisation’s director general said Burton’s anti-fraud programme makes a concerning link between overpayments and fraud and creates potential for people making repayments to fall into destitution.
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# welfare-fraud - Wednesday 16 October, 2013
The Immigrant Council of Ireland wants Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton to outline safeguards against racial profiling in crackdown on welfare fraud.
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# welfare-fraud - Saturday 29 December, 2012
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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The rollout of a new Public Services Card will mean new technology to ensure claimants are who they claim to be.
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# welfare-fraud - Sunday 10 June, 2012
The Department of Social Protection has been cracking down on the number of prisoners who claim social welfare benefits while in jail.
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# welfare-fraud - Saturday 18 February, 2012
Greek MPs, Irish jobs, German cable ties, and all the other news from the week in handy numerical format…
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# welfare-fraud - Thursday 16 February, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# welfare-fraud - Tuesday 15 November, 2011
The Government trumpets the figure of €600million as a potential saving from social welfare fraud. Just one problem – the real figure is €26million, writes Michael Taft.
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# welfare-fraud - Monday 14 November, 2011
The Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed welcomes Fergus O’Dowd’s assurance that welfare rates will not be cut.
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# welfare-fraud - Thursday 6 October, 2011
Dept of Social Protection says new cards will combat fraud by making it harder for people to use false identities to claim payments.
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# welfare-fraud - Tuesday 13 September, 2011
The initiative could save the State €625 million by next year, and has already seen some people’s payments stopped.
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# welfare-fraud - Monday 29 August, 2011
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
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Savings of nearly €345 million have been made so far this year as a result of more than 350,000 reviews of social welfare claims. The numbers of people making anonymous reports is on the increase.
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# welfare-fraud - Monday 15 August, 2011
It has been revealed that the current crackdown on social welfare fraud has already yielded millions of euro in savings. With an entire new fraud unit to be established, we’re asking you: Is the crackdown a good idea or is it targeting the vulnerable?
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Nine things you really should know this morning…
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# welfare-fraud - Thursday 14 July, 2011
Five people were arrested this morning in Dublin as part of an ongoing investigation into fraudulent welfare claims.
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# welfare-fraud - Tuesday 21 June, 2011
In your Fix tonight: Threats to hospital services in Portlaoise, heartbreak for Conor Niland, and does Barack Obama have magical parenting powers?
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# welfare-fraud - Monday 16 May, 2011
The Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton said there would be “concerted and active policing of the hidden economy sector.”
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# welfare-fraud - Friday 10 September, 2010
Is there something strange happening in Japan?
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