Social Welfare (Payment Order) (Amendment) Bill 2018

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

The proposal would let the State’s Maintenance Recovery Unit go to the District Court to seek a payment order for some one-parent families getting the jobseekers transitional payment. In plain terms, it would allow the State to try to recover part of the cost from a relative who may be legally liable to contribute. It matters because it could reduce the public cost of supporting lone parents while shifting some responsibility to family members with a duty to help.

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Bill entitled an Act to provide for the extension of the powers of the Maintenance Recovery Unit of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, to make a District Court application for a Payment Order, in respect of jobseekers transitional payment to one parent families, thus enabling the State to recoup, from a 'liable relative', a contribution towards the cost of providing said payment

Last updated 13 February 2020