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Value for Money & Policy Review Initiative (Formerly Expenditure Review Initiative)

2011

• Comprehensive Review of Expenditure - September 2011

2010

• Review of the Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme
• A Policy and Value for Money Review of Child Income Support and Associated Spending Programmes 
• Value for Money Review of the Disability Allowance Scheme
• Report on the desirability and feasibility of introducing a single social assistance payment for people of working age

2009

• Value for Money Review of the Provision of Information by the Department of Social and Family Affairs and of the Provision of Social Welfare Related Information by the Citizens Information Board

2006

• Review of the Application of the Unemployment Benefit & Assistance Schemes Conditions to Workers Who are Not Employed on a Full-Time Basis
• Report of the Working Group on the Review of the Supplementary Welfare Allowance Scheme Phase II
• Lone parents - proposals for supporting

2005

• Back to Education Allowance Scheme

2004

• Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
• Supplementary Welfare Allowance Scheme

2003

• Payments to Orphans
• Illness & Disability Payment Schemes

2002

• Urban and Gaeltacht School Meals Schemes

2000

• Free Schemes Review
• Qualifying Conditions for the Old Age (Contributory) and Retirement Pensions Phase 1
• One-Parent Family Payment
• Evaluation of the BTWAS and AAE Schemes

1999

• Credited Contributions
• Back to Work Allowance Scheme
• Report of the Working Group Examining the Treatment of Married, Cohabiting and One-Parent Families under the Tax and Social Welfare Codes

1998

• Miscellaneous Grants to Men's and Women's Groups
• Family and Community Services Resource Centre Programme
• National Fuel and Smokeless Fuel Schemes
• Carer's Allowance
• The Disincentive Effects of Secondary Benefits

1997

• Actuarial Review of Social Welfare Pensions