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No. 9 of 1998Social Welfare Bill 1998
Public bill · Government · Presented
Raises social welfare, child benefit and family income supplement rates, while improving means tests and allowing carer’s allowance to continue for six weeks after a spouse’s death. It also introduces public-service numbers and limited data sharing, strengthens oversight and debt recovery, compensates some long-delayed claims, and updates health, youth-employment and occupational-pension rules.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts, section 7A of the Health Contributions Act, 1979, section 18A of the Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981, and section 54 of the Pensions Act, 1990
Last updated 20 November 2019
Sponsor
- Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs Primary
Progress
- First StageDáil
- Second StageDáil
- Committee StageDáil
- Report StageDáil
- Fifth StageDáil
- Second StageSeanad
- Committee StageSeanad
- Report StageSeanad
- Fifth StageSeanad Enacted
- EnactedEnacted
Debates
- Social Welfare Bill, 1998: Committee and Remaining Stages. Seanad
- Social Welfare Bill, 1998: Second Stage. Seanad
- Returns to Writs: Dublin North and Limerick East. - Social Welfare Bill, 1998: Report Stage. Dáil
- Private Members' Business. - Social Welfare Bill, 1998: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. Dáil
- Social Welfare Bill, 1998: Report of Select Committee. Dáil
- Social Welfare Bill, 1998: Committee Stage. SELECT COMMITTEE ON FAMILY, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS
- Social Welfare Bill, 1998: Second Stage. Dáil
- Social Welfare Bill, 1998: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Social Welfare Bill, 1998: Referral to Select Committee. Dáil