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JSA Overpayment Questions

  • 05-05-2015 03:36PM
    #1
    Chain Smoker
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    I just received a letter notifying me that I was overpaid for several months approx four years ago.

    At the time I thought something was wrong but when I brought it up I was pretty much brushed off and told it was grand (something about paying tax for a minimum required number of weeks in 2008 and 2009 bringing me up from the under 21 rate to the full JSA rate?). I've absolutely no record of this, mind.

    Now, I'm currently claiming but was literally about to sign off as I'm leaving the country very soon (this weekend). This is a pretty huge sum of money to me and I can't really afford it at all at this stage. How am I supposed to deal with it? Do they have some kind of manageable payment plans? Is it going to complicate my plans for leaving or returning to the country?


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  • #2
    Cushie Butterfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭Cushie Butterfield


    If you scroll down to section 3 on this page: http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Overpayment-Recovery---Guidelines-on-the-Recovery-of-Debt-by.aspx#4 there's a detailed description on how DSP deal with recovery of overpayments.

    In your present situation it's really up to you about how you want to deal with it & by this I mean whether you want to appeal the fact that you've been overpaid or whether you want to wait until next week to contact them to arrange a repayment plan, but basically once you engage with them in the near future & start repaying they should be satisfied.


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