A number of social welfare and children’s allowance recipients across Donegal have not received payments today due to a “industry-wide payments issue”.
Account holders with a number of banks have not received their welfare payments this morning.
Among the payments impacted are disability allowance, household benefit package, deserted wives payment, working family payment, and farm assist.
However, weekly State pensions are not impacted.
It is not yet certain what other payments have been affected, but it is understood the industry-wide issue may be affecting European payments across a number of banks.
Permanent TSB told customers in an official statements; “Due to a European payments delay, payment transactions between banks have not been received this morning.
“This means that any payment due to transfer to your account from another bank this morning has been delayed.
“Due to this European payments delay, there are a number of banks experiencing this issue this morning.
“We are monitoring the situation and payments will be processed as soon as received.
“We will continue to keep you updated and we wish to apologise for any inconvenience caused.”
Ulster Bank issued a statement to customers on their official Twitter, saying they are aware of an “industry-wide payments issue” that has delayed credits being applied to Irish bank accounts.
They said it is expected that the issues will be resolved shortly and funds will be applied early today.
They added they are working with other banks to resolve the issues.
Government sources told Independent.ie there was no issue on their side with payments.
The said efforts are underway to resolve the problem as quickly as possible but it appears to have been caused by a “system error” at some banks.
A spokesperson for the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection said they are aware of the bank payments issue.
“This is affecting some social welfare payments due to be paid into customer bank accounts this morning,” they said in a statement to Independent.ie.
“The Department can confirm that it has processed all its payments as usual.
“Officials from the Department have been in contact with the main banks this morning and we understand that they are working to resolve this widespread payments issue as quickly as possible.
“The Department will continue to monitor the situation and will update customers throughout the day on our website and via social media.”
The Banking and Payments Federation Ireland has advised that payments processing has recommenced and all customers will receive payments to their accounts in the course of the day.
AIB and Bank of Ireland account holders have not been affected.