{"id":284471,"date":"2026-01-14T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/284471\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:00:10","slug":"ten-serving-ministers-yet-to-pay-back-money-overpaid-by-state-in-pension-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/284471\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten serving ministers yet to pay back money overpaid by State in pension error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/334f2978-0bd9-4801-b3e1-b8e950475fa8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers. Photo: Collins<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ten serving ministers and ministers of state have failed to pay back money they owe to the State as a result of an overpayment error, seven months after the problem was identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Thirty-nine former ministers were also overpaid. Of these, 17 are yet to make repayment arrangements. Just five have paid in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers. Photo: Collins Ten serving ministers and ministers of state have failed to pay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[79,20812,18,19,17,26736,6644,9649,234,235,47],"class_list":{"0":"post-284471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-department-of-social-protection","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jack-chambers","14":"tag-mary-regan","15":"tag-pearse-doherty","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-personalfinance","18":"tag-sinn-fein"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115895233566287720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}