Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 2019

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Number 48 of 2019


SOCIAL WELFARE (NO. 2) ACT 2019


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. Entitlement to benefit or allowance

5. Supplementary provisions

6. Rates of assistance - jobseeker’s allowance

7. Poverty impact assessment of reduced jobseeker rates for 18-24 year olds

8. Jobseeker’s allowance - repeal of section 142B and consequential amendments

9. Carer’s allowance

10. Supplementary welfare allowance - repeal of certain provisions and consequential amendments

11. Rates of assistance - supplementary welfare allowance

12. Working family payment - new weekly rates in certain circumstances

13. Guardian’s payments - concurrent payment in certain circumstances

14. Working family payment - avoidance of multiple payments

15. Payments after death

16. Birth, marriage and death certificates

17. Recovery of certain benefits and assistance

18. Social insurance benefits - new rates of increase for qualified child and living alone allowance

19. Earnings disregarded for certain social assistance payments

20. One-parent family payment - weekly earnings disregard

21. Amendment of Schedule 3 to Principal Act

22. Social assistance payments - new rates of increase for qualified child and living alone allowance

23. Report on the cost of hearing aids and the adequacy of financial supports

24. Review of the criteria to qualify for the treatment benefit scheme

25. Report on current and projected future increases in carbon tax

26. Report on appropriate State pension age

27. Review of qualifying conditions for Fuel Allowance in respect of certain social welfare payments

PART 3

Amendments to other Acts

28. Amendment of section 10D of National Minimum Wage Act 2000

29. Amendment of section 4 of National Training Fund Act 2000


Acts Referred to

Blind Persons Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 49)

Child Care Act 1991 (No. 17)

Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990 (No. 23)

Health Act 1970 (No. 1)

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (No. 22)

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (No. 21)

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Act 2015 (No. 22)

National Minimum Wage Act 2000 (No. 5)

National Training Fund Act 2000 (No. 41)

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 (No. 12)

Social Welfare Act 2017 (No. 38)

Social Welfare Act 2019 (No. 34)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018 (No. 37)

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Number 48 of 2019


SOCIAL WELFARE (NO. 2) ACT 2019


An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 and the National Training Fund Act 2000; and to provide for related matters.

[24th December, 2019]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: