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21/01/2013
New Lotto Bill Gives Benefit Investigators Power To Check Winners
A new Lotto Bill will give social welfare investigators the powers to find out if Lotto jackpot winners are still claiming benefits.
However the new law will not require the National Lottery to pass on the names of winners automatically.
Under the law the name of a particular person, whom the Department of Social Protection are suspicious about, will be passed to the National Lottery where it will be checked against Lotto winners.
An estimated 70% – more than 300 of the country's 452 Lotto millionaires – have opted to keep their identities a secret and the Department of Social Protection currently has no powers to find out their names.
This means it is technically possible for Lotto millionaires to continue to receive social welfare payments, even though they would fail the means test if the department was aware of their €1m-plus windfall.
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However the new law will not require the National Lottery to pass on the names of winners automatically.
Under the law the name of a particular person, whom the Department of Social Protection are suspicious about, will be passed to the National Lottery where it will be checked against Lotto winners.
An estimated 70% – more than 300 of the country's 452 Lotto millionaires – have opted to keep their identities a secret and the Department of Social Protection currently has no powers to find out their names.
This means it is technically possible for Lotto millionaires to continue to receive social welfare payments, even though they would fail the means test if the department was aware of their €1m-plus windfall.
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