Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008

Public bill · Government · Presented

The measure increases many social welfare payments, raises the income limits for Family Income Supplement, and changes entitlement to illness, jobseeker’s, child and childcare supports. It also strengthens the State-backed money advice service for people in debt, transfers responsibility for it to the Citizens Information Board, and dissolves the Combat Poverty Agency, moving its staff, property and responsibilities into government.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts, the Pensions Act 1990 and the Comhairle Act 2000, to amend and extend the functions of the Citizens Information Board, to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018