Social Welfare Act 2005
An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts and to amend the Health Contributions Act 1979
Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005
The 2005 Consolidation Act provides, in a single document, the principles that govern the social welfare code, including the Social Insurance Fund, Social Insurance-Based Benefits, Social Assistance schemes, Child Benefit, the control and application of these schemes, and a number of other matters.
The Consolidation Act has 13 Parts, which provide the legislative basis relating to Social Insurance and Social Assistance, such as insurability provisions relating to employees, self-employed persons, voluntary contributors and optional contributors, the range of social insurance-based schemes including Disability Benefit and Unemployment Benefit, as well as the provisions underpinning the Old Age (Contributory), Widow(er)'s and Retirement Pension schemes.
The Act contains the key provisions relating to the Social Assistance schemes including Unemployment Assistance, Old Age and Widow(er)'s (Non-Contributory) Pensions, One-Parent Family Payment, Carer's Allowance, Supplementary Welfare Allowance and Child Benefit.
It also contains general provisions governing social welfare payments and insurability, claims and payments, and the appointment and duties of Social Welfare Inspectors. In addition, it details offences and penalties and provides for legal proceedings under the social welfare code, the mechanisms governing decisions and appeals in relation
to social welfare, and the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme.
Social Welfare and Pensions Act, 2005
Arrangement of Sections
- Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement
- Definitions (Part 2)
- Child benefit - new rates
- Disability benefit
- Injury benefit - removal of limit
- Carer's benefit - improvement to entitlement conditions
- Respite care grant - improvements to entitlement conditions
- Disability allowance - extension of payment
- Assessment of capital means for certain assistance payments
- Certain EU payments - entitlement to island allowance
- Amendments consequential on the alignment of the income tax year with the calendar year
- Unemployment benefit and unemployment assistance - amendment to entitlement
- Unemployment benefit, unemployment assistance and farm assist - amendment to disqualifications
- Carer's benefit and carer's allowance - amendment
- Personal public service number - extension of provisions
- Award of bereavement grant and payments after death in certain cases
- Provisions relating to prosecutions
- Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act (interpretation)
- Orphan's (contributory) allowance and orphan's (non-contributory) pension - amendments
- Assessment of means - amendments
- Recovery of overpayments
- Old age (contributory) pension - amendment to definition of 'homemaker'
- Amendments to Principal Act consequential on Health Act 2004
- Third Schedule to Principal Act (Rules as to calculation of means)
- Amendments consequential on section 24
- Pre-consolidation amendments to Principal Act
- Definitions (Part 3)
- Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act
- Amendment of section 7A of Principal Act
- Amendment of section 18 of Principal Act
- Funding standard
- Small scheme exemptions
- Amendment of section 59 of Principal Act
- Qualifications of trustees
- Amendment of section 90 of Principal Act
- Amendment to Part VI of Principal Act
- Cross-border schemes
- Amendment of section 111 of Principal Act
- Amendment of section 113 of Principal Act