Social Welfare Act 2012

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Number 43 of 2012


SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2012


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.

2. Definitions.

PART 2

Amendment of Social Welfare Acts

3. Calculation of yearly average and alternative yearly average for pension purposes.

4. State pension (contributory) — amendments.

5. Respite care grant — amendment.

6. Employment contributions — amendment.

7. Schedule 3 — amendment.

8. Child benefit — amendments.

9. State pension (transition) — amendments.

10. Rates of self-employment contributions.

11. Voluntary contributions — amendments.

12. Jobseeker’s benefit — duration of payment.

13. Recovery of overpayments by deductions from social welfare payments.

14. One-parent family payment — amendments.

15. Budgeting in relation to social welfare payments — amendments.

16. Entitlement to jobseeker’s benefit — amendments.

17. Entitlement to jobseeker’s allowance — amendments.

PART 3

Amendment of Redundancy Payments Act 1967

18. Amendment of section 29 of Redundancy Payments Act 1967.


Acts Referred to

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992

1992, No. 18

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009

2009, No. 22

Redundancy Payments Act 1967

1967, No. 21

Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 to 2011

Social Welfare Act 1973

1973, No. 10

Social Welfare Act 2010

2010, No. 34

Social Welfare Act 2011

2011, No. 37

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2008

2008, No. 2

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010

2010, No. 37

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2012

2012, No. 12

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

2005, No. 26

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006

2006, No. 5

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Number 43 of 2012


SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2012


AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS AND TO AMEND THE REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS ACT 1967.

[21st December, 2012]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: