department of social and family affairs annual report 2006 - Welfare.ie

Regulations currently provide that any moneys
received by way of compensation awarded to
persons -
• who have contracted Hepatitis C or HIV,
• who have disabilities caused by Thalidomide,
and
• by the Residential Institutions Redress Board
will be disregarded in the assessment of means
for Supplementary Welfare Allowance purposes.
These Regulations replace the existing provisions
to extend this disregard to include any moneys
received by a way of compensation awarded
under the provisions of the Health (Repayment
Scheme) Act 2006.
S.I. No. 580 of 2006
SOCIAL WELFARE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS)
REGULATIONS 2006
These Regulations provide for the payment of
a Christmas Bonus to long term social welfare
recipients, equivalent to 100% of their normal
weekly payments, subject to a minimum payment
of €30.
The bonus payment applies to recipients of
• Widow’s and Widower’s (Contributory) Pension,
and
• Widow’s and Widower’s (Non‐Contributory)
Pension.
S.I. 582 of 2006
OCCUPATIONAL PENSION SCHEMES (DISCLOSURE
OF INFORMATION) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS,
2006
These Regulations provide for some technical
amendments to the Occupational Pension
Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations
2006 (SI 301 of 2006).
S.I. No. 681 of 2006
SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATED PAYMENTS
PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT)(No. 16) (EARLY
CHILDCARE SUPPLEMENT) REGULATIONS 2006
These Regulations set out the dates on which
Early Childcare Supplement will be payable for the
2007 and subsequent years.
S.I. No. 692 of 2006
SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATED PAYMENTS
PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT) (No. 14) (INCREASE
IN RATES) REGULATIONS 2006
appendices
• Blind Pension,
• Carer's Allowance,
• Carer's Benefit
• Death Benefit by way of pension,
• Disability Allowance,
• Disablement Pension,
• Farm Assist.
• Guardians Payment (Contributory and Non-
Contributory),
• Invalidity Pension,
• Jobseeker’s Allowance in respect of a
continuous period of unemployment of at least
15 months,
• One-parent Family Payment,
• Pre‐Retirement Allowance,
• Relevant payments under section 178(1) of the
Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (formerly
Deserted Wife’s Benefit and Allowance and
Prisoner’s Wife’s Allowance),
• State Pension (Contributory and
Non‐Contributory),
• State Pension (Transition),
The Social Welfare Act 2006 provides for increases
in the maximum rates of social insurance
payments arising from Budget 2007.
These Regulations provide for increases in the
reduced rates of Illness Benefit, Jobseeker’s
Benefit, Health and Safety Benefit, State Pension
(Contributory), State Pension (Transition),
Widow’s and Widower’s (Contributory) Pension
and Deserted Wife’s Benefit, and also provides
for increases in the rates of tapered increases in
respect of Qualified Adults. All of these increases
are effective from the first week in January 2007.
The Regulations also provide for increases in the
minimum weekly rate of Maternity Benefit and
Adoptive Benefit, with effect from January 2007.
The Social Welfare Act 2003 provided that, with
effect from the 19th January 2004, any increase
for a qualified child applicable to Jobseeker’s
Benefit, Illness Benefit, Injury Benefit and Health
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