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Number 8 of 2007
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SOCIAL WELFARE AND PENSIONS ACT 2007
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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PART 1
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Preliminary and General
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Section
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1. Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.
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2. Definitions.
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PART 2
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Amendments to Social Welfare Acts
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3. Amendment to definition of volunteer development worker.
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4. Child benefit — new rates.
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5. Illness benefit — improvements.
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6. Maternity benefit — improvements.
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7. Adoptive benefit — improvements.
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8. Jobseeker’s benefit — improvement.
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9. Jobseeker’s allowance, pre-retirement allowance, disability allowance and farm assist — amendments to means provisions.
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10. Cost of medical care — amendments.
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11. Disqualifications from injury benefit or disablement benefit — amendment.
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12. Carer’s benefit — entitlement to benefit.
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13. State pension (contributory) — amendment.
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14. Qualified adult increase — direct payment.
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15. Entitlement for invalidity pension recipients — amendment.
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16. Invalidity pension — amendment to entitlement to pension.
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17. Guardian’s payment (contributory) and guardian’s payment (non-contributory) — amendments.
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18. Bereavement grant — improvements.
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19. Widowed parent grant — amendment.
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20. Jobseeker’s allowance — improvement.
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21. Pre-retirement allowance — amendments.
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22. One-parent family payment — increase in earnings limit.
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23. Relevant payments — conditions for receipt.
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24. Payment of carer’s allowance in certain circumstances.
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25. Supplementary welfare allowance — amendments.
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26. Disability allowance — amendment to disqualification.
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27. Child benefit — amendment.
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28. Respite care grant — increase in grant and amendments.
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29. Payments — amendment.
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30. Habitual residence condition — amendment.
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31. Disclosure of certain information.
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32. Personal public service number — amendments.
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33. Budgeting in relation to social welfare payments — amendment.
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34. Appointment of deciding officers — amendment.
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35. Schedule 3 — amendments.
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36. Supplementary welfare allowance — calculation of means amendments.
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PART 3
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Amendments to Pensions Act 1990
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37. Amendments to Pensions Act 1990.
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PART 4
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Miscellaneous Amendments to other Acts
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38. Amendment to Taxes Consolidation Act 1997.
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39. Attendance before Public Accounts Committee — amendments to other Acts.
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SCHEDULE 1
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Amendments to Supplementary Welfare Allowance
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SCHEDULE 2
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Amendments to Pensions Act 1990
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PART 1
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Amendments relating to Trust Retirement Annuity Contracts
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PART 2
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Amendments relating to Fines and Penalties
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PART 3
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Miscellaneous Amendments
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SCHEDULE 3
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Attendance before Public Accounts Committee
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PART 1
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Amendment to Combat Poverty Agency Act 1986
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PART 2
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Amendment to Family Support Agency Act 2001
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Acts Referred to
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Adoptive Leave Act 1995
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1995, No. 2
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Child Care Act 1991
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1991, No. 17
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Combat Poverty Agency Act 1986
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1986, No. 14
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Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993
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1993, No. 8
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Family Support Agency Act 2001
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2001, No. 54
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Health Contributions Act 1979
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1979, No. 4
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Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992
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1992, No. 12
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Maternity Protection Act 1994
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1994, No. 34
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Pensions Act 1990
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1990, No. 25
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Pensions Acts 1990 to 2006
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Pensions (Amendment) Act 1996
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1996, No. 18
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Social Welfare Act 2005
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2005, No. 30
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Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2005
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2005, No. 4
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Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005
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2005, No. 26
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Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006
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2006, No. 5
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Taxes Consolidation Act 1997
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1997, No. 39
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Number 8 of 2007
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SOCIAL WELFARE AND PENSIONS ACT 2007
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AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS, THE PENSIONS ACT 1990, THE COMBAT POVERTY AGENCY ACT 1986, THE TAXES CONSOLIDATION ACT 1997 AND THE FAMILY SUPPORT AGENCY ACT 2001.
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[30th March, 2007]
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
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