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Number 43 of 2022
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SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2022
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CONTENTS
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Section
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1. Definitions
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2. Reckonable income - amendment to definition
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3. Qualified adult - amendment to definition
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4. Employment contributions
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5. Maternity benefit - new rate
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6. Adoptive benefit - new rate
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7. Paternity benefit - new rate
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8. Parent’s benefit - new rate
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9. Increase in rates of jobseeker’s benefit and jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed) relating to certain reckonable weekly earnings, certain weekly income, certain reckonable weekly income and certain periods
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10. Working family payment - increased income thresholds
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11. Partial capacity benefit - claims
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12. Amendment of section 359A of Principal Act
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13. Social insurance benefits - new rates
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14. Rules as to calculation of means
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15. Social assistance payments - new rates
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16. Domiciliary care allowance - new rate
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17. Amendment of Taxes Consolidation Act 1997
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18. Short title and construction
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SCHEDULE 1
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Social Insurance Benefits (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 4 of Schedule 2
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SCHEDULE 2
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Social Assistance Payments (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 4
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Acts Referred to
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Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008
(No. 22)
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Social Welfare Act 2019
(No. 34)
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Social Welfare Act 2021
(No. 44)
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Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013
(No. 20)
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Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005
(No. 26)
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Taxes Consolidation Act 1997
(No. 39)
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Terms of Employment (Information) Acts 1994 to 2014
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Number 43 of 2022
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SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2022
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An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to make a consequential amendment to the
Taxes Consolidation Act 1997
; and to provide for related matters.
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[15th December, 2022]
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Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:
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