Social Welfare Act, 1995 (No. 3)

Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes

Published date: 5 April 1995

Social Welfare Act, 1995 (No. 3)

	Introductory Text
	Acts Referred to
	Part I Preliminary (ss. 1-2)
	1. Short title and construction.
	2. Definitions.
	Part II Increases (ss. 3-5)
	3. Social insurance benefits (new rates).
	4. Social assistance payments (new rates).
	5. Child benefit (new rates, etc.).
	Part III Social Insurance Contributions (ss. 6-10)
	6. Employment contributions (new rates of contributions and increase in earnings ceiling).
	7. Self-employment contributions (new rates of contributions and increase in earnings ceiling).
	8. Optional contributions (new rates of contributions).
	9. Voluntary contributions by former self-employed contributors.
	10. Exemption from payment of contributions.
	Part IV Miscellaneous (ss. 11-23)
	11. Adoptive benefit.
	12. Carer's allowance (eligibility conditions and calculation of means).
	13. Maternity benefit.
	14. Qualified child (definition).
	15. Adult dependant (payment of allowances in certain circumstances).
	16. Unemployment assistance (rates of payment and calculation of means).
	17. Unemployment benefit (optional contributions - duration of payment).
	18. Replacement of references to "Social Employment Scheme" with "Community Employment".
	19. Old age (contributory) and survivor's pensions (reckoning of employment contributions).
	20. Orphans' pensions (definition and rate of payment).
	21. Recoupment of supplementary welfare allowance.
	22. Disqualification from benefit while absent from State or undergoing imprisonment, etc.
	23. Amendments to Third Schedule of Principal Act.
	Part V Amendment of Health Contributions Act, 1979 and Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981 (ss. 24-25)
	24. Amendment of Health Contributions Act, 1979.
	25. Amendment of Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981.
	Schedule A
	Schedule B
	Schedule C