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Number 30 of 2020
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SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2020
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CONTENTS
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1. Definitions
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2. Employment contributions
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3. Exchange of information in relation to Chapter
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4. Employment wage subsidy scheme - additional supplemental provisions for purposes of Chapter
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5. Illness benefit - reduction in number of waiting days
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6. Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment
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7. Regulations for purposes of Chapter 12B
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8. Injury benefit - reduction in number of waiting days
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9. Increase in widowed or surviving civil partner grant
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10. Removal of one-parent family payment earnings limit
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11. Carer’s support grant - new rate
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12. Working family payment - new weekly rates in certain circumstances
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13. Payments after death
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14. Social insurance benefits - new rates of increase for qualified child and living alone allowance
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15. Social insurance benefits and social assistance payments - increase in island allowance
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16. Social assistance - new rates of increase for qualified child and living alone allowance
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17. Pensionable age - repeal of section 7 of Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011
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18. Short title and construction
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Acts Referred to
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Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Act 2020
(No. 8)
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Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019
(No. 35)
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Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Act 2020
(No. 12 of 2020)
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Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 2019
(No. 48)
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Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010
(No. 37)
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Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011
(No. 9)
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Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013
(No. 38)
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Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2015
(No. 47)
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Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005
(No. 26)
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Number 30 of 2020
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SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2020
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An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; and to provide for related matters.
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[22nd December, 2020]
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Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:
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