Social Welfare Act, 1983

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Number 6 of 1983

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1983

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section
1.	Definitions.
2.	Social insurance benefits (new rates).
3.	Social assistance payments (new rates).
4.	Pay-related social insurance contributions (increase in earnings ceiling).
5.	Short-time employment.
6.	Title to unemployment benefit.
7.	Title to pay-related benefit.
8.	Pay-related benefit (additional waiting days for certain benefits).
9.	Rate of pay-related benefit.
10.	Duration of payment of pay-related benefit.
11.	Maternity grant.
12.	Children's allowances (modification of qualifications).
13.	Unemployment assistance (abolition of alternative method of calculation of means).
14.	Employment contributions (modification of liability).
15.	Supplementary welfare allowance (financing of health board expenditure).
16.	Insurable (occupational injuries) employment (extension).
17.	Amendment of section 115 of Principal Act.
18.	Amendment of section 116 of Principal Act.
19.	Amendment of section 144 of Principal Act.
20.	Amendment of section 145 of Principal Act.
21.	Amendment of section 168 of Principal Act.
22.	Amendment of section 188 of Principal Act.
23.	Amendment of section 231 of Principal Act.
24.	Amendment of section 266 of Principal Act.
25.	Amendment of section 267 of Principal Act.
26.	Short title, construction and collective citation.

Acts Referred to
Social Welfare Act, 1982	1982, No. 2
Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1981	1981, No. 3
Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981	1981, No. 1

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Number 6 of 1983

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1983

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS, 1981 AND 1982. [31st March, 1983]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: