Social Welfare Act 2022

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Number 43 of 2022

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2022

CONTENTS

Section

1. Definitions

2. Reckonable income - amendment to definition

3. Qualified adult - amendment to definition

4. Employment contributions

5. Maternity benefit - new rate

6. Adoptive benefit - new rate

7. Paternity benefit - new rate

8. Parent’s benefit - new rate

9. Increase in rates of jobseeker’s benefit and jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed) relating to certain reckonable weekly earnings, certain weekly income, certain reckonable weekly income and certain periods

10. Working family payment - increased income thresholds

11. Partial capacity benefit - claims

12. Amendment of section 359A of Principal Act

13. Social insurance benefits - new rates

14. Rules as to calculation of means

15. Social assistance payments - new rates

16. Domiciliary care allowance - new rate

17. Amendment of Taxes Consolidation Act 1997

18. Short title and construction

SCHEDULE 1

Social Insurance Benefits (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 4 of Schedule 2

SCHEDULE 2

Social Assistance Payments (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 4

Acts Referred to

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 (No. 22)

Social Welfare Act 2019 (No. 34)

Social Welfare Act 2021 (No. 44)

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 (No. 20)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39)

Terms of Employment (Information) Acts 1994 to 2014

Number 43 of 2022

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2022

An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to make a consequential amendment to the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 ; and to provide for related matters.

[15th December, 2022]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: