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Number 37 of 2023
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SOCIAL WELFARE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2023
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CONTENTS
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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 and commencement
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2. Definitions
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PART 2
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Amendments of Social Welfare Acts
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3. Amendment of section 13 of Principal Act - employment contributions
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4. Maternity benefit - new rate
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5. Adoptive benefit - new rate
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6. Paternity benefit - new rate
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7. Parent’s benefit - amendment of duration of benefit
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8. Parent’s benefit - new rate
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9. Increase in rates of jobseeker’s benefit and jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed) relating to certain reckonable weekly earnings, certain weekly income and certain reckonable weekly income and certain periods
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10. Amendment of section 119 of Principal Act
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11. Amendment of section 141 of Principal Act (entitlement to jobseeker’s allowance)
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12. Increase for qualified children
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13. Amendment of section 219 of Principal Act
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14. Working family payment
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15. Amendment of section 290 of Principal Act
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16. Amendment of section 300 of Principal Act
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17. Social insurance benefits - new rates
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18. Amendment of Schedule 3 to Principal Act
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19. Social assistance payments - new rates
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20. Domiciliary care allowance - new rate
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PART 3
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Statutory Sick Pay
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21. Amendment of section 5 of Sick Leave Act 2022
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22. Amendment of Schedule 6 to Workplace Relations Act 2015
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23. Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act
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24. Illness benefit (entitlement to benefit)
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25. Illness benefit (conditions for receipt)
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26. Illness benefit (duration of payment)
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27. Amendment of section 69 of Principal Act (occupational injuries benefits) - calculation of period in definition of "injury benefit period"
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28. Occupational injuries benefits
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PART 4
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State Pension (Contributory) - Long-Term Carer’s Qualifying Contribution and Deferral of State Pension (Contributory)
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29. Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act
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30. Amendment of section 12 of Principal Act (employed contributors and insured persons)
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31. Amendment of section 13 of Principal Act (employment contributions)
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32. Amendment of section 20 of Principal Act (self-employed contributors and insured persons)
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33. Amendment of section 24 of Principal Act (voluntary contributors)
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34. Amendment of section 25 of Principal Act (voluntary contributions by former employed contributors)
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35. Amendment of section 40 of Principal Act (entitlement to illness benefit)
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36. Amendment of section 44 of Principal Act (duration of illness benefit)
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37. Amendment of section 46A of Principal Act (entitlement to partial capacity benefit)
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38. Amendment of section 46C of Principal Act (duration of partial capacity benefit)
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39. Amendment of section 62 of Principal Act (entitlement to jobseeker’s benefit)
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40. Amendment of section 64 of Principal Act (conditions for receipt of jobseeker’s benefit)
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41. Amendment of section 67 of Principal Act (duration of payment of jobseeker’s benefit)
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42. Amendment of section 68C of Principal Act (entitlement to jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed))
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43. Amendment of section 68H of Principal Act (duration of jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed))
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44. Amendment of section 108 of Principal Act (entitlement to State pension (contributory))
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45. Long-term carer’s qualifying contribution
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46. Amendment of section 109 of Principal Act (conditions for receipt of State pension (contributory))
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47. Amendment of section 110 of Principal Act
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48. Rate of pension
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49. Amendment of section 113A of Principal Act
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50. Amendment of section 238B of Principal Act (entitlement to back to work family dividend)
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51. Amendment of section 238C of Principal Act (duration of back to work family dividend)
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52. Amendment of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to Principal Act
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53. Specified weekly payments
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SCHEDULE 1
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Social Insurance Benefits (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 4 of Schedule 2
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SCHEDULE 2
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Social Assistance Payments (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 4
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Acts Referred to
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Credit Union Act 1997
(No. 15)
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Medical Practitioners Act 2007
(No. 25)
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Sick Leave Act 2022
(No. 24)
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Social Welfare Act 2021
(No. 44)
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Social Welfare Act 2022
(No. 43)
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Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005
(No. 26)
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Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018
(No. 37)
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Workplace Relations Act 2015
(No. 16)
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Number 37 of 2023
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SOCIAL WELFARE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2023
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An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to amend the
Sick Leave Act 2022
and the
Workplace Relations Act 2015
; to make provision for the attribution, in certain circumstances, for the purposes of the State pension (contributory), of contributions by certain persons who provide long-term care and attention to certain other persons and for the deferral, on a voluntary basis, by certain persons in certain circumstances in accessing the State pension (contributory) and for the phased transition to the total contributions approach in relation to the calculation of the State pension (contributory) and, for those and other purposes, to further amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; and to provide for related matters.
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[14th December, 2023]
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Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:
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