Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

247B

F1443[ Disqualification from certain payments while participating in Community Employment.

247B.(1) A person shall be disqualified from receiving

(a) any benefit specified in section 39(1), other than

(i) disablement benefit payable in accordance with section 75,

(ii) death benefit by way of a grant in respect of funeral expenses,

(iii) bereavement grant, and

F1444[(iv) bereaved parent grant,]

(b) an increase, payable under section 77, in disablement pension F1445[on account of incapacity, and]

(c) any assistance specified in section 139(1), other than

F1446[(i) a weekly or monthly payment payable in accordance with section 198,]

(ii) supplementary welfare allowance in so far as it relates to the payment of that allowance in accordance with section 200, 201, 202 or 206, and

F1447[(iii) a bereaved parent grant,]

(d) F1448[]

for any week or part of a week during which he or she is employed under a scheme provided by the Minister and known as Community Employment.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a person receiving any benefit, increase, assistance or allowance specified in F1449[paragraphs (a) to (c)] of subsection (1) while he or she is employed under a Community Employment scheme where the period of employment under that Community Employment scheme commenced before 16 January 2012.]

Annotations

Amendments:

F1443

Inserted (16.01.2012) by Social Welfare Act 2011 (37/2011), s. 12(1), commenced as per subs. (2).

F1444

Substituted (21.07.2025) by Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2025 (8/2025), s. 17(n)(i), commenced on enactment.

F1445

Substituted (28.06.2013) by Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 (20/2013), s. 19 and sch. item 20(a)(i), commenced on enactment.

F1446

Substituted (1.05.2012) by Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2012 (12/2012), s. 7, commenced on enactment.

F1447

Substituted (21.07.2025) by Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2025 (8/2025), s. 17(n)(ii), commenced on enactment.

F1448

Deleted (28.06.2013) by Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 (20/2013), s. 19 and sch. item 20(a)(iii), commenced on enactment.

F1449

Substituted (28.06.2013) by Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 (20/2013), s. 19 and sch. item 20(b), commenced on enactment.

Editorial Notes:

E1693

Previous affecting provision: para. (c)(iii) amended (28.06.2013) by Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 (20/2013), s. 19 and sch. item 20(a)(ii), commenced on enactment; substituted (21.07.2025) as per F-Note above.