Social Welfare Act 2020

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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)

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Number 30 of 2020


SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2020


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: