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Number 36 of 2006

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2006

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Definitions.

2. Social insurance benefits (new rates).

3. Social assistance payments (new rates).

4. Family income supplement (new weekly rates).

5. Employment contributions (amendment to earnings limits and ceiling).

6. Optional contributions (amendment to income ceiling).

7. Maternity benefit.

8. Adoptive benefit.

9. Widowed parent grant — increase of grant.

10. State pension (non-contributory) — increase of weekly disregard.

11. Disability allowance — entitlement to allowance.

12. Excepted self-employed contributors.

13. Amendments to Health Contributions Act 1979.

14. Short title and construction.

SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2

Acts Referred to

Health Contributions Act 1979

1979, No. 4

Social Welfare Act 2005

2005, No. 30

Social Welfare Acts

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

2005, No. 26

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006

2006, No. 5

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Number 36 of 2006

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2006

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS AND TO AMEND THE HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS ACT 1979.

[19th December, 2006]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: