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Compliance and Anti Fraud Strategy 2024 - 2028
From Department of Social Protection
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All of the annual reports in relation to the Compliance and Anti Fraud Strategy are available here Annual Reports: Compliance and Anti Fraud Strategy
The Department of Social Protection’s mission is to promote the active participation and inclusion of all in society through the provision of income supports, employment services and other services. We administer more than 90 schemes and services, which affect the lives of almost every person in the State. Overall, expenditure by the department in 2023 was €24.9 billion.
The Department is committed to ensuring that only those people who are eligible, receive welfare and other payments. Our overriding objective is to ensure that we pay the right people, the right amount, through the right scheme/programme, at the right time.
The Department continues to work in an ever-changing environment and is constantly required to meet new challenges and update its processes. Increasingly, customers access services via digital channels such as MyWelfare. While this enables improved customer service and greater operational efficiency, it also requires that we remain alert to new and emerging forms of fraud and non-compliance.
This Compliance and Anti-fraud Strategy covers the five years from 2024 to 2028. In line with the previous strategy, it comprises four pillars: “Prevent” , “Deter” , “Detect” and “Account” , which will be leveraged to ensure that suspected fraud and non-compliance in our welfare system is kept to a minimum during the lifetime of the Strategy.