Produced by the Office of the Attorney General
Táirgthe ag Oifig an Ard-Aighne
Number 4 of 1994
SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1994
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
Preliminary
Section
1.
Short title and construction.
2.
Definition.
PART II
Increases
3.
Social insurance benefits (new rates).
4.
Social assistance payments (new rates).
5.
Child benefit (new rates).
6.
Family income supplement (new weekly rates).
PART III
Social Insurance Contributions
7.
Employment contributions (new rates of contributions and increases in earnings ceilings).
8.
Self-employment contributions (increase in earnings ceiling).
9.
Voluntary contributions by former self-employed contributors.
10.
Exemption from payment of contributions.
PART IV
Survivor's Pension
11.
Survivor's pension.
12.
Transitional provisions.
13.
Repeals, etc.
14.
Commencement (Part IV).
PART V
Amendments to Existing Schemes
15.
Lone parent's allowance (calculation of means).
16.
Carer's allowance (rate of allowance and calculation of means).
17.
Maternity benefit.
18.
Amendment of Third Schedule to Principal Act (rules as to calculation of means).
19.
Unemployment benefit (entitlement to benefit).
20.
Occupational injuries benefits (integration of injury benefit and unemployability supplement with disability benefit).
21.
Amendment of Chapter 11 of Part II of Principal Act (pay-related benefit).
22.
Unemployment assistance (minimum payment for certain claimants).
23.
Amendment of section 170 of Principal Act (definition of child dependant).
24.
Amendment of section 172 of Principal Act (persons in full-time education).
25.
Amendment of section 173 of Principal Act (persons in full-time employment).
PART VI
Miscellaneous
26.
Payments after death.
27.
Pre-retirement allowance.
28.
Social welfare inspectors.
29.
Failure to keep records.
30.
Unemployment assistance and supplementary welfare allowance (calculation of rates of payments).
31.
Occupational injuries insurance.
32.
Amendments consequential on section 3.
33.
Provision of consultancy, training and contract services, etc.
PART VII
Amendment of Health Contributions Act, 1979 and Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981
34.
Amendment of Health Contributions Act, 1979.
35.
Amendment of Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981.
SCHEDULE A
SCHEDULE B
SCHEDULE C
SCHEDULE D
SCHEDULE E
SCHEDULE F
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS, THE HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS ACT, 1979 AND THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AGENCY ACT, 1981 . [31st March, 1994]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
