Ireland’s largest Education and Training Board (ETB) made more than €200,000 in pension overpayments to the spouse of a deceased worker who failed to disclose a new marriage for nine years. The Dublin and Dún Laoghaire ETB revealed the overpayment in its 2024 annual report, which noted it had entered an agreement with the recipient to recover €202,739. The overpayment arose in 2010 after a retired ETB employee died and their spouse was awarded the pension. Dublin and Dún Laoghaire ETB is the largest of the 16 ETBs throughout Ireland, employing more than 4,600 people and supporting some 80,000 learners. “However per capita payments linked to one of the cases is likely to result in additional monies being repaid to Dublin and Dún Laoghaire ETB.

Source: The Irish Times February 12, 2026 22:34 UTC