The Minister for Social and Family Affairs has announced a crackdown on social welfare fraud targeting Irish and foreign workers who continue to claim the dole despite no longer living or working in Ireland.
Ms Hanafin said today that claimants will have to sign on at post offices weekly, rather than have the payments made automatically to them.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland , Ms Hanafin said the Department had made an immediate saving of around €1.5 million in its investigation of some 2,000 people or about 10 per cent of those on the Live Register who were not currently living in Ireland or seeking work here.
She said that across the scheme of social welfare payments, officials were targeting savings of between €530m to €540 million.
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