Produced by the Office of the Attorney General
Táirgthe ag Oifig an Ard-Aighne
Number 44 of 2021
SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2021
CONTENTS
PART 1
Preliminary and General
Section
1. Short title, construction and commencement
PART 2
Amendments to Social Welfare Acts
2. Definitions
3. Employment contributions
4. Amendment of section 38G of Principal Act
5. Maternity benefit - new rate
6. Adoptive benefit - new rate
7. Paternity benefit - new rate
8. Parent’s benefit - amendment of duration of benefit
9. Parent’s benefit - new rate
10. Increase in rates of jobseeker’s benefit relating to certain reckonable weekly earnings, certain weekly income and certain reckonable weekly income and certain periods
11. Amendment of section 66(1A) of Principal Act - change of rates
12. Treatment Benefit - amendments - non-surgical hair replacement
13. Disability allowance - rate of allowance
14. Working family payment - increase income thresholds
15. Back to work family dividend - Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment
16. Amendment of section 238C of Principal Act
17. Chief Appeals Officer
18. Social insurance benefits - new rates of increase for qualified child and living alone allowance
19. Social insurance benefits - new rates
20. Rules as to calculation of means - agricultural schemes - amendments
21. Amendment to Schedule 3 to Principal Act (carer’s allowance capital disregard)
22. Social assistance - new rates of increase for qualified child and living alone allowance
23. Social assistance payments - new rates
PART 3
Amendment to Credit Guarantee Act 2012
24. Amendment to section 4A of Credit Guarantee Act 2012
SCHEDULE 1
Social Insurance Benefits (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 4 of Schedule 2 to Principal Act
SCHEDULE 2
Social Assistance Payments (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 4 to Principal Act
Acts Referred to
Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 5)
Credit Guarantee Act 2012 (No. 26)
Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2021 (No. 4)
Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 (No. 35)
Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010 (No. 28)
Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 (No. 12)
Social Welfare Act 2016 (No. 15)
Social Welfare Act 2019 (No. 34)
Social Welfare Act 2020 (No. 30)
Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2009 (No. 43)
Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007 (No. 8)
Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)
Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018 (No. 37)
An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts, to amend the Credit Guarantee Act 2012 ; and to provide for related matters.
[18th December, 2021]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:
