Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023

Specified weekly payments

53. The Principal Act is amended, by the insertion of the following Schedule after Schedule 5:

“SCHEDULE 5A

Section 108(2)

SPECIFIED WEEKLY PAYMENTS

1. Each of the following payments shall be a specified weekly payment for the purposes of this Schedule and Chapter 15 of Part 2:

(a) jobseeker’s benefit;

(b) jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed);

(c) illness benefit;

(d) State pension (non-contributory);

(e) occupational injuries benefit comprising injury benefit, disablement benefit and death benefit;

(f) carer’s benefit;

(g) carer’s allowance;

(h) weekly supplementary welfare allowance known as basic supplementary welfare allowance;

(i) a payment made under a scheme provided for under the European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 230 of 2018) administered by the Minister and known as the ‘daily expenses allowance’;

(j) widow’s (contributory) pension, widower’s (contributory) pension and surviving civil partner’s (contributory) pension;

(k) a payment to a person who is or becomes a person in respect of whom an increase for a qualified adult is being paid.

2. The Minister may by regulations amend paragraph 1 by adding a specified weekly payment to, deleting a specified weekly payment from, or amending a reference to a specified weekly payment in, that paragraph.”.