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39. Description of benefits.

(1) Benefits under this Part shall be of the following descriptions and are so described in this Act -

(a) illness benefit,

(aa) partial capacity benefit,

(b) maternity benefit,

(c) health and safety benefit,

(d) adoptive benefit,

(da) paternity benefit,

(db) parent's benefit,

(e) jobseeker’s benefit,

(ea) jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed),

(eb) Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment,

(f) occupational injuries benefit comprising injury benefit, disablement benefit and death benefit,

(g) carer's benefit,

(h) State pension (contributory),

(i) State pension (transition),

(j) invalidity pension,

(k) widow's (contributory) pension, widower's (contributory) pension and surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension,

(l) guardian’s payment (contributory),

(m) bereavement grant,

(n) widowed or surviving civil partner grant (paid by virtue of receipt of a benefit under Part 2).

(2) Subject to section 138 and so long as that section remains in force, benefit shall, in addition to inclu

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