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Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018 (No. 37)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart 1 Preliminary and General (s. 1)1. Short title, construction, collective citations and commencementPart 2 Amendments to Social Welfare Acts (ss. 2-26)2. Definitions (Part 2)3. Employment contributions4. PRSI amendments - PAYE modernisation5. Maternity benefit - new rate6. Adoptive benefit - new rate7. Paternity benefit - new rate8. Increase in rates of jobseeker's benefit relating to certain reckonable weekly earnings, certain reckonable weekly income and certain periods9. State Pension (contributory)10. Jobseeker's allowance - rates of assistance11. Supplementary welfare allowance - weekly amounts12. Exceptional needs payment13. Payment after death - domiciliary care allowance14. Review of carer's allowance payment15. Decisions by deciding officers - electronic applications16. Prescribed relative allowance - repeals etc.,17. Increase for qualified children - amendments18. Social insurance benefits - new rates19. Benchmarking of social welfare payment rates20. Earnings disregarded for disability allowance, blind pension and certain supplements payable under supplementary welfare allowance21. Review of means testing of maintenance payments22. One-parent family payment - weekly earnings disregard23. Social assistance payments - new rates24. Impact of Brexit25. Eligibility criteria for community employment schemes26. Tús schemePart 3 Amendment to Pensions Act 1990 (s. 27)27. Insertion of new Part VIIA into Pensions Act 1990Part 4 Amendments to Civil Registration Act 2004 (ss. 28-30)28. Definition (Part 4)29. Amendment of section 7 of Act of 200430. Amendment of section 9 of Act of 2004Part 5 Miscellaneous (s. 31)31. Amendment of section 4 of National Training Fund Act 2000Schedule 1 Increase for qualified children - Amendments to Principal ActSchedule 2 Social Insurance Benefits (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 4 of Schedule 2Schedule 3 Social Assistance Payments (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 4
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12. Exceptional needs payment

Section 201 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 is amended by the addition of “which is not necessarily unforeseen” after “by way of a single payment to meet an exceptional need”.

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