2011 Act The 2011 Act was designed to give legislative effect to certain Social Welfare measures announced in the Budget Statement of 5 December 2011, which are due to come into effect from 1 January 2012. These include the following: Redundancy Payments scheme—reduction in employer rebate for statutory redundancy payments from 60% to 15%. Disablement Benefit — abolition of entitlement to Disablement Benefit where loss […]
2014 Act The Social Welfare Act 2014 gave legislative effect to one of the social protection measures announced in the Budget Statement of 14th October 2014 and which was due to take effect from 1 January 2015, i.e. the increase in the monthly rate of Child Benefit. Budget 2015 provided for a number of social protection measures. the increase in the Living Alone Allowance, effective […]
2016 Act The 2016 Act was designed to give legislative effect to a range of Social Welfare measures announced in the Expenditure Report of 11 October 2016, including increases in weekly welfare rates. The measures in question provide for increases in the weekly rates of pensions, benefits and allowances and proportionate increases for qualified adult dependants.. All increases commenced in the week ending March 10th […]
2020 Act The 2020 Act is designed to give legislative effect to a range of Social Welfare measures announced in the Budget on 13th October 2020. This includes a provision to repeal the increase in State Pension age. The Programme for Government stated that the planned increase in the State Pension age next year would be deferred, and it would remain at 66, pending the […]