Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018

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Number 37 of 2018

SOCIAL WELFARE, PENSIONS AND CIVIL REGISTRATION ACT 2018

CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and general

1. Short title, construction, collective citations and commencement

PART 2

Amendments to Social Welfare Acts

2. Definitions (Part 2)

3. Employment contributions

4. PRSI amendments - PAYE modernisation

5. Maternity benefit - new rate

6. Adoptive benefit - new rate

7. Paternity benefit - new rate

8. Increase in rates of jobseeker’s benefit relating to certain reckonable weekly earnings, certain reckonable weekly income and certain periods

9. State Pension (contributory)

10. Jobseeker’s allowance - rates of assistance

11. Supplementary welfare allowance - weekly amounts

12. Exceptional needs payment

13. Payment after death - domiciliary care allowance

14. Review of carer’s allowance payment

15. Decisions by deciding officers - electronic applications

16. Prescribed relative allowance - repeals etc.,

17. Increase for qualified children - amendments

18. Social insurance benefits - new rates

19. Benchmarking of social welfare payment rates

20. Earnings disregarded for disability allowance, blind pension and certain supplements payable under supplementary welfare allowance

21. Review of means testing of maintenance payments

22. One-parent family payment - weekly earnings disregard

23. Social assistance payments - new rates

24. Impact of Brexit

25. Eligibility criteria for community employment schemes

26. Tús scheme

PART 3

Amendment to Pensions Act 1990

27. Insertion of new Part VIIA into Pensions Act 1990

PART 4

Amendments to Civil Registration Act 2004

28. Definition (Part 4)

29. Amendment of section 7 of Act of 2004

30. Amendment of section 9 of Act of 2004

PART 5

Miscellaneous

31. Amendment of section 4 of National Training Fund Act 2000

SCHEDULE 1

Increase for qualified children - Amendments to Principal Act

SCHEDULE 2

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

SCHEDULE 3

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

Acts Referred to

Child Care Act 1991 (No. 17)

Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (No. 24)

Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3)

Civil Registration Acts 2004 to 2015

Marriage Act 2015 (No. 35)

National Training Fund Act 2000 (No. 41)

Pensions Act 1990 (No. 25)

Pensions Acts 1990 to 2015

Social Welfare Act 2011 (No. 37)

Social Welfare Act 2017 (No. 38)

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

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013 (No. 38)

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2015 (No. 47)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Number 37 of 2018

SOCIAL WELFARE, PENSIONS AND CIVIL REGISTRATION ACT 2018

An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to amend and extend the Pensions Act 1990 ; to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 ; to amend the National Training Fund Act 2000 ; and to provide for related matters.

[24th December, 2018]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: