Claiming state pensions for his dead parents for 33 years!

And they will recover feck all by the looks of it zzz

How does stuff like this get through the system for so long. Outrageous

This is just extraordinary, utterly baffling and shocking in every sense. Notwithstanding the actual act of claiming his Dead parents pension the lack of oversight and controls by the department is astonishing.

Heather Humphries is returning Jobseekers payments to post offices for collection, to allegedly combat fraud (it's actually to prop up Post offices) and yet this chancer able to collect his dead parents pensions for 33 years at his local post office.

The incompetence of DSP is breathtaking, it seems it was impossible to track down Death Certs , its beggars belief. How are the DSP not able to cross check registered deaths against pensions being claimed 🤔 it took an intrepid Garda detective weeks to track down Graves were the parents were buried.

For years now, Revenue and DSP have been sharing data , there's also sharing of information with the HSE it's just bizzare a State agency tasked with paying pensions can't at the very least check on occasion death notices, even apart from the death certs, how difficult is it to check RIP.IE 😳

There was clearly no Health care or prescription charges for the deceased parents in 33 years did no one ask any questions 🤔

And then there's the presidential payment for those reaching 100, the fraudster almost got another €2500 to add to his cash pile.

Mind boggling stuff .

It certainly did albeit I wondered had the presidents payment not been offered would he still be claiming the pension. I'd say there's a serious review going on at the moment 😏

Would it have been possible to turn that payment down I wonder or would that have raised concerns?

Because public service departments don't communicate properly with each other and PPS numbers aren't used effectively.

We applied for a passport for our daughter last year and we had to submit our marriage cert, passports and birth certs - all of which have been issued by public service departments and should be linked to our PPS numbers. Then we could present to Garda Station,prove identity and PPS, submit application and let public service department check their own records to verify all documentation on the Irish system.

Link everything to the public service card and PPS number and clamp down on this type of behaviour.

I'd be pretty sure red flags would have been raised but I got a sense when the Social welfare inspector called the son about the payment, they were already suspicious and gardai had started making enquiries.

Imagine in this day an age a garda had to go to a few graveyards to look for evidence of a burial and death of the parents, it's just extraordinary.

Yes he never registered the deaths so that would have stopped that picking it up, not sure if it's cross referenced with pensions and state benefits. I know before prisoners were in jail still getting full dole each week while they were there, some systems not linked up.

I wonder how common this is? It must cost millions.

At least he didn’t bring the parents into the post office to collect the pension!

It would make sense deaths not registered. On the state benefits forum there's literally thousands of post relating to DSP seeking proof of income, reviews of Disability allowance payments, Medical reviews , requests for bank statements etc and yet this chancer collecting his dead parents pension for 33 years without so much as a Phone call from DSP. Did I see he even managed to update a PSC using a photo of an elderly neighbour 😳

Why aren't deaths registered by the hospital or undertaker? That's madness, in a time of grief someone is expected to fill in a few forms. Undertakers should be responsible for this.

Yes it should be undertaker as a plan B who had to make some draft registration of the death and then a family member make the proper registration. It's an offence to not register a death within 3 months but I've never heard of anyone being fined for it, I imagine it's the next of kin responsible for it.

Were the names still on the Electoral Register?

I couldn’t resist 🥸