Department to review some successful social welfare appeals

Department of Social Protection. File Picture.

The Department of Social Protection has said it will carry out periodic reviews of successfully appealed cases where no new or additional material information was provided, on foot of a recommendation by the Comptroller & Auditor General.

The watchdog carried out a review of the department's management of social welfare appeals, based around a randomly selected sample of 75 appeals finalised in 2019 across three different schemes — invalidity pension, disability allowance, and domiciliary care allowance, all of which are subject to a high number of appeals.