Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2015

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Number 47 of 2015


SOCIAL WELFARE AND PENSIONS ACT 2015


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title, construction, collective citations and commencement

PART 2

Amendments to Social Welfare Acts

2. Definitions

3. Social insurance benefits (new rates)

4. Social assistance payments (new rates)

5. Renaming of respite care grant

6. Carer’s support grant - new rate

7. Amounts of child benefit

8. Family income supplement (new weekly rates)

9. Payment after death - carer’s allowance

10. Employment contributions - increase in PRSI thresholds

11. Liability to maintain family

12. Meaning of spouse and civil partner for certain purposes

13. Meaning of widow and widower for purposes of widow’s (non-contributory) pension, widower’s (non-contributory) pension, etc.

14. Meaning of widow and widower for purposes of one-parent family payment

15. Calculation of supplementary welfare allowance

16. Absence from State or imprisonment

17. Excepted employments and excepted self-employed contributors

18. Elections under Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 relating to charging, collection and recovery of certain contributions

19. Medical assessor - registered nurse

20. Budgeting in relation to social welfare payments - amendment

PART 3

Pensions Ombudsman

21. Definition

22. Amendment of section 126 of Principal Act

23. Amendment of section 128 of Principal Act

24. Amendment of section 129 of Principal Act

25. Amendment of section 130 of Principal Act

SCHEDULE 1

Social Assistance Payments (New Rates) - Part 2 Substituted

SCHEDULE 2

Renaming of Respite Care Grant


Acts Referred to

Central Bank Act 1942 (No. 22)

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Act 2004 (No. 21)

Credit Union Act 1997 (No. 15)

Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 (No. 41)

Pensions Act 1990 (No. 25)

Pensions Acts 1990 to 2014

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 (No. 22)

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 (No. 12)

Social Welfare Act 2010 (No. 34)

Social Welfare Act 2011 (No. 37)

Social Welfare Act 2012 (No. 43)

Social Welfare Acts

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

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2009 (No. 43)

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2014 (No. 41)

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010 (No. 37)

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2012 (No. 12)

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013 (No. 38)

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014 (No. 16)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39)

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Number 47 of 2015


SOCIAL WELFARE AND PENSIONS ACT 2015


An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to amend and extend the Pensions Act 1990 to provide for the appointment, as Pensions Ombudsman, of the person who also holds the Office of Financial Services Ombudsman; and to provide for related matters.

[16 th December, 2015]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: