Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2004

Public bill · Government · Presented

Would increase Child Benefit, the carers’ Respite Care Grant, the pension for people aged 80 and over, and certain unemployment payments, while extending six weeks of continued payments after a social welfare recipient’s death to all recipients. It would also improve maternity and adoptive benefit arrangements, allow more public bodies to use PPS numbers, strengthen employers’ duties to provide pension access, and prohibit discrimination in occupational pensions based on grounds including gender, race, age, disability, religion, family status and sexual orientation.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts, to amend and extend the Pensions Act 1990 for, amongst other purposes, the purpose of giving effect (in so far as they relate to occupational pensions) to Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin and Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation and to amend the Health Contributions Act 1979 and the National Training Fund Act 2000

Last updated 13 April 2018