Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2025

PART 2

Bereaved Partner’s Pension

Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act

3. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1), by the insertion of the following definitions:

“ ‘qualified cohabitant’ shall be construed in accordance with section 123A;

‘surviving qualified cohabitant’ means one qualified cohabitant of a couple who were both qualified cohabitants of each other and whose qualified cohabitant is deceased;”.