Compliance and Anti-fraud Strategy 2014 – 2018

Strategy

All of the annual reports in relation to the Compliance and Anti Fraud Strategy are available here Annual Reports: Compliance and Anti Fraud Strategy

Introduction

The new Compliance and Anti-Fraud Strategy 2014 – 2018 builds on the approach and progress made under the Fraud Initiative (2011 – 2013).

The overall aims of the new Strategy are threefold:

• to stop fraud from entering the system in the first place;
• to increase the likelihood of finding incorrect or fraudulent claims and quickly correcting these; and
• to strengthen the sanctions for those who are caught.

These aims are key to underpinning an effective strategy to tackle fraud and abuse over the next 5 years. They are also key to giving strong assurances to taxpayers and, indeed Irish society generally, that the system of control that we operate is robust and effective.

The new Strategy contains a number of measures – some new and some of which are building on approaches that we have been successfully rolling out over the past couple of years. The Department is always open to looking at the role that technology can play in doing its business more efficiently. In this context, a key aspect of the new Strategy will be the use of analytics technology to predict which claims are more likely to be fraudulent. This will enable the Department to target higher risk cases for investigation and to do so faster. This approach will be rolled out across our main working age schemes before the end of 2014.