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Enacted Seanad
No. 114 of 2013

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013

Public bill · Government · Presented

Changes social welfare rules to correct and remove outdated means-test references, and revises how defined-benefit occupational pension funds are shared when schemes wind up, with different protections where employers are solvent or insolvent. It also allows limited reductions to larger pensions in underfunded schemes, while protecting pensions of €12,000 or less and setting minimum payment levels.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to amend and extend the Pensions Act 1990; to make additional provision for the discharge of the liabilities in the winding up of certain occupational pension schemes and to provide for the discharge of liabilities of such schemes where employers are insolvent on or before the date of the wind up of such schemes; to provide for the payment, in certain circumstances, by the Minister for Finance of moneys to secure the discharge of certain liabilities in respect of certain occupational pension schemes that are being wound up where certain employers are insolvent on or before the date of the wind up of such schemes; to make additional provision for the restructuring of certain occupational pension schemes and for that purpose to provide for the reduction in the benefits being paid to certain persons under such schemes; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 20 November 2019

Sponsor
  • Minister for Social Protection Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
    Dáil
  • Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil
  • Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages
    Seanad
  • Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage
    Seanad

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