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# Overpayments

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Years of mistakes: How the Department of Social Protection mishandled social welfare overpayments
Government says it's owed €475 million in social welfare overpayments
Over 300 cases of social welfare fraud reported to gardaí last year
Six people were wrongly paid over €200,000 in social welfare