Social Welfare Bill 2012

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Social Welfare Bill 2012 would reduce several payments and supports, including Child Benefit, the Respite Care Grant and means-tested assistance for farmers and fishers. It would shorten Jobseeker’s Benefit, increase some social insurance contributions, allow larger deductions to recover overpayments, and end employers’ rebates for statutory redundancy payments. It would also change rules for some reduced-rate State pensions and pension contributions, mainly affecting people reaching pension age from 2013 onwards.

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Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts and to amend the Redundancy Payments Act 1967

Last updated 12 April 2018