Produced by the Office of the Attorney General
Táirgthe ag Oifig an Ard-Aighne
Number 30 of 2020
SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2020
CONTENTS
1. Definitions
2. Employment contributions
3. Exchange of information in relation to Chapter
4. Employment wage subsidy scheme - additional supplemental provisions for purposes of Chapter
5. Illness benefit - reduction in number of waiting days
6. Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment
7. Regulations for purposes of Chapter 12B
8. Injury benefit - reduction in number of waiting days
9. Increase in widowed or surviving civil partner grant
10. Removal of one-parent family payment earnings limit
11. Carer’s support grant - new rate
12. Working family payment - new weekly rates in certain circumstances
13. Payments after death
14. Social insurance benefits - new rates of increase for qualified child and living alone allowance
15. Social insurance benefits and social assistance payments - increase in island allowance
16. Social assistance - new rates of increase for qualified child and living alone allowance
17. Pensionable age - repeal of section 7 of Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011
18. Short title and construction
Acts Referred to
Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Act 2020 (No. 8)
Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 (No. 35)
Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 12 of 2020)
Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 2019 (No. 48)
Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010 (No. 37)
Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011 (No. 9)
Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013 (No. 38)
Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2015 (No. 47)
Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)
An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; and to provide for related matters.
[22nd December, 2020]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:
