Social Welfare Act 2024

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Number 36 of 2024

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2024

CONTENTS

Section

1. Definitions

2. Employment contributions

3. Amendment of section 21 of Principal Act

4. Maternity benefit – new rate

5. Adoptive benefit – new rate

6. Paternity benefit – new rate

7. Parent’s benefit – new rate

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

9. Amendment of section 68J of Principal Act

10. Amendment of section 100 of Principal Act

11. Additional payment for newborn or adopted child

12. Carer’s support grant – new rate

13. Working family payment

14. Section 292 of Principal Act – modification of effect for certain period

15. Reduction of rates and weekly amounts in certain circumstances

16. Social insurance benefits – new rates

17. Social assistance payments – new rates

18. Domiciliary care allowance – new rate

19. 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

Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 (No. 35)

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023 (No. 37)

Social Welfare Act 2020 (No. 30)

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

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Number 36 of 2024

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2024

An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; and to provide for related matters.

[28th October, 2024]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: