Social Welfare Act, 1980

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Number 3 of 1980

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1980

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section
1.	Definitions.
2.	Insertion of Eighth Schedule into Act of 1952.
3.	Old age pensions (new rates and extension of means limits).
4.	Reduction of qualifying age for pensions for blind persons and consequential provision.
5.	Increase of earnings disregarded in the case of blind persons.
6.	Unemployment assistance (new rates and increase for certain adult dependants).
7.	Amendment of section 13 of Act of 1933.
8.	Unemployment assistance (removal of 6 months' residence qualification).
9.	Widows' (non-contributory) pensions, deserted wife's allowance, social assistance allowance for unmarried mothers and prisoner's wife's allowance (new rates and extension of means limits).
10.	Widow's (non-contributory) pension (extension of entitlement).
11.	Orphan's (non-contributory) pension (new rates and extension of means limit).
12.	Extension of meaning of “orphan” in Act of 1935 and Act of 1952.
13.	Single woman's allowance (new rates and extension of means limit).
14.	Supplementary welfare allowance (new rates and increase for certain adult dependants).
15.	Social insurance benefits (new rates).
16.	Unemployment benefit (increase of certain rates).
17.	Disability benefit (additional waiting days).
18.	Repeal of section 20 (5) of Act of 1952.
19.	Extension of meaning of “adult dependant” in the case of certain benefits.
20.	Occupational injuries benefits (new rates).
21.	Occupational injuries (increase for pensioners living alone).
22.	Occupational injuries (extension of definition of orphan).
23.	Occupational injuries (extension of meaning of “adult dependant”).
24.	Children's allowances (new rates).
25.	Increase of grants for multiple births.
26.	Pay-related social insurance (new rates of contributions and increase in earnings ceiling).
27.	Short title, construction and collective citations.

SCHEDULE

Eighth Schedule

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Number 3 of 1980

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1980

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE OLD AGE PENSIONS ACTS, 1908 TO 1979, THE UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACTS, 1933 TO 1979, THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSIONS ACTS, 1935 TO 1979, THE SOCIAL WELFARE (CHILDREN'S ALLOWANCES) ACTS, 1944 TO 1979, THE SOCIAL WELFARE (SUPPLEMENTARY WELFARE ALLOWANCES) ACTS, 1975 AND 1979, AND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS, 1952 TO 1979. [18th March, 1980.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

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