ECC- Unrecovered Salary Overpayments to Former Staff Total $35.3M

Recommendation

1. The AuGD notes the Commission’s efforts to strengthen the system of controls over the payment of subsidies to Early Childhood Practitioners (ECPs) to ensure that ECPs are not paid after they have been separated from the Early Childhood Institutions through the implementation of a Childcare Education Health and Development Integration System (CEHDIS). Notwithstanding, the ECC should continue its efforts, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, to recover the outstanding amounts.
2. Additionally, the ECC should assess the collectability of the long outstanding receivables and where amounts are deemed uncollectible, seek approval through the Parent Ministry to have those amounts written off in keeping with the GoJ’s Write-off Policy.

JAMP Update

The ECC responded to JAMP on March 30, 2026, advising that it has demonstrated consistent recovery efforts over many years, collecting nearly $48 million to date:

• Up to and including FY 2022/23 ,$42,280,690.59
• FY 2023/24 ,$1,464,255.07
• FY 2024/25 ,$2,208,152.18
• FY 2025/26 (Apr 2025 – Feb 2026) ,$1,999,855.02
• Total Recovered to Date ,$47,952,952.86

The ECC further advised that the outstanding overpayment balance, spanning the period 2011 to 2023, stands at $34,026,693.83 as at March 31, 2023. No update on write-offs was provided.

For more detail, see ATI response below.

ATI Responses

• ECC- Unrecovered Overpayment- ATI Response 2026