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Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 (No. 22)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart 1 Preliminary and General (ss. 1-2)1. Short title, construction, collective citations and commencement.2. Definitions.Part 2 Amendments to Social Welfare Acts (ss. 3-23)3. Social insurance benefits (new rates).4. Social assistance payments (new rates).5. Working family payment (new weekly rates).6. Employment contributions (amendment to earnings limits and ceiling).7. Optional contributions (amendment to income ceiling).8. Reckonable income - amendment to definition.9. Children detention school - definition.10. Registered medical practitioner - amendment.11. Widowed parent grant - amendment to definition.12. Pre-retirement allowance.13. One-parent family payment - entitlement.14. Supplementary welfare allowance - amendments.15. Illness benefit - amendment.16. Health and safety benefit - amendment.17. Jobseeker's benefit - linked claims.18. Jobseeker's benefit - amendment.19. Domiciliary care allowance.20. Child benefit - amendment.21. Early childcare supplement - amendment.22. Weekly family income - amendment to definition.23. Blind welfare allowance - amendment.Part 3 Miscellaneous Amendments to other Acts (ss. 24-25)24. Amendments to Pensions Act 1990.25. Amendment to Civil Registration Act 2004.Part 4 Money Advice and Budgeting Service (ss. 26-29)26. Definition.27. Amendments to section 2 of Act of 2000.28. Amendments to section 7 of Act of 2000.29. Transfer by Minister of certain rights and liabilities.Part 5 Dissolution of Combat Poverty Agency (ss. 30-38)30. Definition.31. Dissolution of Agency.32. Transfer of rights and liabilities.33. Transfer of certain property.34. Final accounts.35. Pending legal proceedings.36. Transfer of employees.37. Expenses.38. Repeal.Schedule 1Schedule 2
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AI Summary of 5. Working family payment (new weekly rates).

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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 January 2018 - onwards
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5. Working family payment (new weekly rates).

(1) The following section is substituted for section 228 (as amended by section 4(1) of the Act of 2007) of the Principal Act:

"228. Subject to this Act, an allowance (in this Act referred to as 'working family payment') shall be payable out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas in respect of a family where the weekly family income is less than -

(a) in the case of a family which includes only 1 child, €500,

(b) in the case of a family which includes 2 children, €590,

(c) in the case of a family which includes 3 children, €685,

(d) in the case of a family which includes 4 children, €800,

(e) in the case of a family which includes 5 children, €920,

(f) in the case of a family which includes 6 children, €1,030,

(g) in the case of a family which includes 7 children, €1,160, or

(h) in the case of a family which includes 8 or more children, €1,250.".

(2) This section comes into operation on 1 January 2009.

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