Social welfare recipients overpaid by €67m
Documents released to the Irish Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act also show that almost €17m of these overpayments could not be traced and had to be written off as irretrievable.
According to briefing material prepared for incoming Social and Family Affairs Minister Seamus Brennan, €28.7m was overpaid in 2002, while in 2003 the figure rose to €38.9m.
