Role of the Redundancy Payments Section

Redundancy Recoveries Section

The role of the Redundancy Recoveries Section is to endeavour to recover monies from employers where payments have had to be made direct to employees from the Social Insurance Fund because the employers have failed to make those payments.

The recovery service is exercised against employers, or where a firm is in liquidation, receivership or examinership, against the liquidator, receiver or examiner.

The Redundancy Payments Section and the Redundancy Recoveries Section carry out their functions in accordance with the provisions of Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 - 1991.

The services delivered are:-

1. payment of rebates to employers who have paid their employees statutory redundancy lump sum (rebate is 60% of the statutory amount); and
2. payment of statutory lump sums to eligible employees whose employers have failed to pay them the statutory redundancy lump sums to which they are entitled.
3. on behalf of the Social Insurance Fund (funded by employers and the Exchequer) to seek to recover from employers reimbursement of monies paid out in the circumstances outlined at (ii). The services are provided from the Department's offices at Davitt House, 65A, Adelaide Road, Dublin 2 (telephone (01) 6312121; fax (01) 631 3270)