Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2025

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Number 8 of 2025

SOCIAL WELFARE (BEREAVED PARTNER’S PENSION AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2025

CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and construction

2. Definition

PART 2

Bereaved Partner’s Pension

3. Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act

4. Death benefit for bereaved partners and increases for qualified children, etc.

5. Chapter 18 - Interpretation

6. Qualified cohabitant

7. Repeal of section 124 of Principal Act

8. Entitlement to bereaved partner’s pension

9. Operation of section 124A and repeal of section 124-savers

10. Amendment of section 125 of Principal Act

11. Bereaved parent grant

12. Amendment of section 162 of Principal Act

13. Entitlement to pension

14. Disqualification

15. Avoidance of double pension

16. Repeal of section 167A of Principal Act

17. Consequential amendments to Principal Act

18. Amendment of section 126 of Taxes Consolidation Act 1997

PART 3

Miscellaneous Amendments to Principal Act and Family Courts Act 2024

19. Invalidity Pension

20. Attendance at, and participation in, questioning of detained person by relevant officers during interview by member of An Garda Síochána

21. Amendment of Family Courts Act 2024

Acts Referred to

Child Care Act 1991 (No. 17)

Civil Liability Act 1961 (No. 41)

Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3)

Criminal Justice Act 1984 (No. 22)

Family Courts Act 2024 (No. 48)

Fatal Injuries Act 1956 (No. 3)

Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) Act 1982 (No. 6)

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 (No. 15)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39)

Number 8 of 2025

SOCIAL WELFARE (BEREAVED PARTNER’S PENSION AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2025

An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to make consequential amendments to the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 ; to amend the Family Courts Act 2024 ; and to provide for related matters.

[21st July, 2025]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: