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This chapter on the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme outlines governance arrangements and presents information on HAP trends, including increases in cost over time. In 2020, the Department spent almost €465 million supporting nearly 60,000 HAP tenants.

This chapter examines the results of control surveys of social support payments by the Department of Social Protection and the impact of Covid-19 on the scheme controls.

The chapter examines how the Social Welfare Appeals Office manages the appeals that are made against the Department of Social Protection. It examined if the Appeals Office had a fair and efficient system and if reviews of appealed cases were used to improve operations.

This chapter examines the pandemic unemployment scheme, including an assessment of the effectiveness of controls, the outcome of the risk based reviews conducted and whether there is likely to be a material level of irregular payments in 2020.

This report provides an overview of the Department’s activities targeted at detecting and deterring fraud and error; examines the operation of the control activities; and outlines the outcomes of the control activities.

A review of how the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (the Department) gains assurance that individuals are correctly classified for PRSI was conducted, including a review of PRSI determinations and compliance work.

The 2017 audit of the appropriation account of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection identified overpayments of jobseeker's allowance to claimants in the 18-25 age category. The report notes that this resulted in an estimated €1.2m in overpayments for 2017.

The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection implemented the JobPath service in 2015 to assist long-term unemployed to find and sustain permanent employment. This report examines how the Department monitors achievement of contract objectives, and associated costs.

The report refers to a material level of irregularity of social welfare scheme payments and sets out the estimated levels of excess payment for each scheme found during the latest control surveys due to suspected fraud, error or medical ineligibility.

This chapter examines the Dormant Accounts Fund and provides a brief summary of the fund from inception to 2016, it also outlines the arrangements for disbursing monies from the fund and it reviews the level of disbursements over the last five years 2012 - 2016