Produced by the Office of the Attorney General
Táirgthe ag Oifig an Ard-Aighne
Number 3 of 1995
SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1995
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
Preliminary
Section
1.
Short title and construction.
2.
Definitions.
PART II
Increases
3.
Social insurance benefits (new rates).
4.
Social assistance payments (new rates).
5.
Child benefit (new rates, etc.).
PART III
Social Insurance Contributions
6.
Employment contributions (new rates of contributions and increase in earnings ceiling).
7.
Self-employment contributions (new rates of contributions and increase in earnings ceiling).
8.
Optional contributions (new rates of contributions).
9.
Voluntary contributions by former self-employed contributors.
10.
Exemption from payment of contributions.
PART IV
Miscellaneous
11.
Adoptive benefit.
12.
Carer's allowance (eligibility conditions and calculation of means).
13.
Maternity benefit.
14.
Qualified child (definition).
15.
Adult dependant (payment of allowances in certain circumstances).
16.
Unemployment assistance (rates of payment and calculation of means).
17.
Unemployment benefit (optional contributions— duration of payment).
18.
Replacement of references to “Social Employment Scheme” with “Community Employment”.
19.
Old age (contributory) and survivor's pensions (reckoning of employment contributions).
20.
Orphans' pensions (definition and rate of payment).
21.
Recoupment of supplementary welfare allowance.
22.
Disqualification from benefit while absent from State or undergoing imprisonment, etc.
23.
Amendments to Third Schedule of Principal Act.
PART V
Amendment of Health Contributions Act, 1979 and Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981
24.
Amendment of Health Contributions Act, 1979.
25.
Amendment of Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981.
SCHEDULE A
SCHEDULE B
SCHEDULE C
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS, THE HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS ACT, 1979 , AND THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AGENCY ACT, 1981 . [5th April, 1995]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
