Social Welfare and Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System (Amendment) Act 2025
AI-assisted research summary: This Act amends the Social Welfare and Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System legislation and updates several welfare payment rates and related rules.
Social Welfare and Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System (Amendment) Act 2025 Permanent Page URL View by Section Amharc de réir Ailt View Full Act Amharc ar an Acht Iomlán Bill History Stair Bille Commencement, Amendments, SIs made under the Act Tosach Feidhme, Leasuithe, IRà arna ndéanamh faoin Acht Open PDF Oscail PDF Priontáil an tAcht Iomlán Previous Section Alt Roimhe Next Section An Chéad Alt Eile Priontáil an tAlt 19 2025 SOCIAL WELFARE AND AUTOMATIC ENROLMENT RETIREMENT SAVINGS SYSTEM (AMENDMENT) ACT 2025 1. Definitions 2. Employment contributions 3. Maternity benefit – new rate 4. Adoptive benefit – new rate 5. Paternity benefit – new rate 6. Parent’s benefit – new rate 7. Increase in rates of jobseeker’s benefit and jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed) relating to certain reckonable weekly earnings, certain weekly income, certain reckonable weekly income and certain periods 8. Extension of period during which person may become qualified person for purpose of section 221B of Principal Act 9. Working family payment 10. Back to work family dividend – extension of eligibility 11. Amendment of section 265 of Principal Act 12. Social insurance benefits – new rates 13. Social assistance payments – new rates 14. Domiciliary care allowance – new rate 15. Amendments to references to Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in Principal Act 16. Amendment of Principal Act (disregard from income of participant contributions paid under section 59(1) of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Act 2024) 17. Miscellaneous amendments to Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Act 2024 18. Short title and construction SCHEDULE 1 Social Insurance Benefits (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 4 of Schedule 2 SCHEDULE 2 Social Assistance Payments (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 4 Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Act 2024 (No. 20) Childcare Support Act 2018 (No. 11) Civil Legal Aid Act 1995 (No. 32) Social Welfare Act 2024 (No. 36) Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011 (No. 9) Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26) Student Support Act 2011 (No. 4) Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39) 19 2025 SOCIAL WELFARE AND AUTOMATIC ENROLMENT RETIREMENT SAVINGS SYSTEM (AMENDMENT) ACT 2025 Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Act 2024 ; and to provide for related matters. rd December , 2025] Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: