Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2002

Public bill · Government · Presented

Raises Child Benefit, the Respite Care Grant and the Widowed Parent Grant, extends support for children in full-time education, and makes it easier for people returning to work to retain access to disability or unemployment payments. It also changes eligibility for maternity and adoptive benefits, pension contribution reliefs and treatment benefits, and creates a single public-service identity using personal information such as a person’s PPS number. Other measures modernise electronic birth, death and marriage records, remove the financial limit on redirecting charitable gifts, and allow tax refunds to be used against unpaid social insurance contributions.

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Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts, the Charities Act 1961, the Combat Poverty Agency Act 1986, the Health Contributions Act 1979, the Registration of Births and Deaths (Ireland) Act 1863, the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Ireland) 1880, the Registration of Births Act 1996, the Marriages (Ireland) Act 1844 and the Marriages (Ireland) Act 1863

Last updated 13 April 2018