No. 30 of 2005 - Social Welfare Act 2005
What does this law do?
The main purpose of the Social Welfare Act 2005 is to provide for the Budgetary increases in the rates of social insurance and social assistance payments and improvements in the Family Income Supplement, Maternity and Adoptive Benefit and Supplementary Welfare Allowance schemes.
It also provides for an increase in the weekly earnings limit below which PRSI is not payable, an increase in the income ceiling above which PRSI contributions are not payable by employed or optional contributors, in addition to changes to the Health Contributions Act 1979 to provide for an increase in the weekly and annual exemption thresholds for the Health Contribution Levy.
Contact Department: Department of Social and Family Affairs
Signed by the President on: 16/12/2005
Full version of the Social Welfare Act 2005 on the Oireachtas website