Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) Regulations 2007
S.I. No. 412 of 2007
SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATED SUPPLEMENTARY WELFARE ALLOWANCE) REGULATIONS 2007
REVISED
Updated to 24 March 2023
This Revised Statutory Instrument is an administrative consolidation of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) Regulations 2007. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Act 2023 (6/2023), enacted 10 March 2023, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 1) (Calculation of Means) Regulations 2023 (S.I. No. 161 of 2023), made 24 March 2023, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Statutory Instrument.
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S.I. No. 412 of 2007
SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATED SUPPLEMENTARY WELFARE ALLOWANCE) REGULATIONS 2007
REVISED
Updated to 24 March 2023
ARRANGEMENT OF ARTICLES
PART 1
Preliminary
Article
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1. |
Citation. |
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2. |
Commencement. |
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3. |
Definitions. |
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4. |
Interpretation. |
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5. |
Revocations. |
PART 2
General Provisions
CHAPTER 1
Illness Benefit
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6. |
Persons in full-time work. |
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7. |
Persons in full-time education. |
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8. |
Registration for employment. |
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8A. |
Refusal to engage with activation measures — prescribed schemes, courses etc. |
PART 3
Rent and Mortgage Supplements
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9. |
Entitlement to rent supplement. |
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9A. |
Prescribed periods for purposes of section 198. |
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9B. |
Provision by landlord of tax reference number for rent supplement. |
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10. |
Entitlement to mortgage supplement. |
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11. |
Duration of supplement. |
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12. |
Amount of supplement. |
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13 |
Amount of supplement in certain cases. |
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14. |
Saver. (Deleted) |
PART 4
Diet Supplement
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15. |
Entitlement to diet supplement. |
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16. |
Amount of supplement. |
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17. |
Continuation of payment of supplement where entitlement commences before 1 February 2014. |
PART 5
Claims and Payments
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18. |
Claims. |
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19. |
Information to be given when making claim. |
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20. |
Prescribed time for making claim. |
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21. |
Claims made outside prescribed time. |
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22. |
Extension of time for making claim. |
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23. |
Provision of information. |
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24. |
Administration of payment. (Deleted) |
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25. |
Time and manner of payment. |
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26. |
Extinguishment of right to payment. |
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27. |
Nominated persons. |
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28. |
Persons unable to act. |
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29. |
Payment to appointed persons. |
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30. |
Payment to appointed person living together with applicant. |
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31. |
Provisions relating to appointments. |
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32. |
Offences. |
PART 6
Miscellaneous
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33. |
Earnings disregard — supplementary welfare allowance. |
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34. |
Prescribed age for the purposes of benefit and privilege. |
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35. |
Assessment of means — non-cash benefits. |
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36. |
Calculation of means. |
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36A. |
Additional income disregard for rent and mortgage interest supplement — prescribed employment, training etc. |
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37. |
Relevant payments — linked claims. |
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38. |
Payment in exceptional circumstances. |
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39. |
Application of Principal Act. (Deleted) |
PART 7
Determinations and Appeals
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40. |
Determination of designated person. |
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41. |
Submission of appeal under section 323. |
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42. |
Notice of appeal and information to be supplied. |
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43. |
Further information to be supplied and amendment of pleadings. |
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44. |
Determination of Review Officer. |
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45. |
Method of sending documents. |
SCHEDULE 1
Maximum Rent Limits
SCHEDULE 2
Amount of Diet Supplement
SCHEDULE 3
Application of Principal Act (Deleted)
SCHEDULE 4
Revocations
S.I. No. 412 of 2007
SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATED SUPPLEMENTARY WELFARE ALLOWANCE) REGULATIONS 2007
REVISED
Updated to 24 March 2023
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in “Iris Oifigiúil” of 10th July, 2007.
The Minister for Social and Family Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 4, 188, 190, 191, 194, 195, 198, 241, 242, 244, 251, 294, 295, 312 and 330, Rules 1(2), 1(2)(b)(iv) and 1(5)(a) of Part 4, and reference 19 of Table 2 of Schedule 3 to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26 of 2005), hereby makes the following Regulations: