Claims: Critical Dates
All claims must be completed and settled by the end of January 2011
All claims must be completed and settled by the end of January 2011
Common Claim Errors by Applicants and Accountants
When your claim is received it will be validated by Enterprise Ireland.
All claims with no errors will be given priority for payment.
Claims with errors may not be paid. If your claim has an error (see A,B and C below) you will be contacted after all the claims without error have been paid. You will be given limited time to correct the problem, after which the claim will be deemed ineligible and no payment will be made for that claim period.
Typically incorrect claims take an average of 4 weeks longer to pay than claims with no errors. We strongly advise clients and Accountants to validate claims being prepared by juniors before submitting for payment.
Please note that errors on Directors Report and Accountants Reports can only be addressed by resubmitting a corrected original by post.
To assist you in submitting a correct Claim 4 we have listed below the common errors experienced to date.
A) Directors Statement – Common Errors
All claims with no errors will be given priority for payment.
Claims with errors may not be paid. If your claim has an error (see A,B and C below) you will be contacted after all the claims without error have been paid. You will be given limited time to correct the problem, after which the claim will be deemed ineligible and no payment will be made for that claim period.
Typically incorrect claims take an average of 4 weeks longer to pay than claims with no errors. We strongly advise clients and Accountants to validate claims being prepared by juniors before submitting for payment.
Please note that errors on Directors Report and Accountants Reports can only be addressed by resubmitting a corrected original by post.
To assist you in submitting a correct Claim 4 we have listed below the common errors experienced to date.
A) Directors Statement – Common Errors
- Wrong dates for claim period
- Project Number not included
- Letter of offer date incorrect (Please use the date on the original or any subsequently revised letter of offer which you signed)
- Amount claimed incorrectly entered as the total grant (it should be the grant for this period – refer to your letter of offer page 5 which specifies the claim amount for each period).
- Directors statement not dated
- Directors statement not signed and signature dated
- Directors name not printed
- Accountant does not use the standard template and workprogram sent with the letter of offer (The correct template and work program is also available for download from this website. Click here to download accountants report. (40KB)
Click here to download workprogram (143KB) 
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- The accountant forgets to remove the standard (optional) sentence in the letter of offer in relation to relying on representations from the client. This sentence should only be included where the accountant did rely on representations and these representations must then be attached to Accountant’s Report.
- The report refers to the wrong claim periods (The claim periods are on page 5 of the Letter of Offer)
- The report has the wrong letter of offer date. (They should use the date on the original or any subsequently revised letter of offer which you signed).
- They use the wrong date for the company’s claim date. It should be the date that the directors statement is signed.
- They do not include the workprogram with their report.
