Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011
Repayment of amounts due to be deferred, suspended or cancelled.
17.— The Principal Act is amended by substituting the following section for section 342:
“Repayment of amounts due to be deferred, suspended, reduced or cancelled.
342.— Notwithstanding anything to the contrary and subject to section 342A, where a person is required to repay an amount of any—
(a) benefit described in section 39(1),
(b) assistance described in section 139(1),
(c) child benefit,
(d) respite care grant,
(e) family income supplement,
(f) continued payment for qualified children, or
(g) payment pursuant to section 239,
in accordance with this Act—
(i) an officer of the Minister authorised by him or her for this purpose, or
(ii) the Executive, in the case of supplementary welfare allowance,
may, subject to the conditions and in the circumstances that shall be prescribed, defer, suspend, reduce or cancel repayment of any such amount.”.
Annotations:
Modifications (not altering text):
C3
Family income supplement construed (1.01.2018) by Social Welfare Act 2017 (38/2017), s. 8(2), commenced as per subs. (3).
Renaming of family income supplement
8. ...
(2) Any reference in any Act, or in any instrument made under any Act, passed or made before the commencement of this section to “family income supplement” shall be construed as a reference to “working family payment”.
(3) This section comes into operation on 1 January 2018.
C4
Respite care grant construed (1.01.2016) by Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2015 (47/2015), s. 5(2), commenced as per subs. (3).
Renaming of respite care grant
5. ...
(2) Every reference in any Act, or in any instrument made under any Act, passed or made before the commencement of this section, to respite care grant shall be construed as a reference to carer’s support grant.
(3) This section comes into operation on 1 January 2016.