Enacted Stage in the legislative process — click for what it means 81/2024 Official bill number / year
Social Welfare Bill 2024
- Sponsor
- Minister for Social Protection
- Introduced
- 9 Oct 2024
- Last updated
- 1 Nov 2024
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Increases weekly welfare rates by €12 across social insurance and means-tested payments; increases maternity, adoptive, paternity and parent's benefit by €15 weekly from January 6, 2025.
- Raises employer PRSI threshold to match National Minimum Wage increase to €13.50, saving employers €616 annually per full-time minimum wage employee.
- Introduces €280 once-off payment for newborn or adopted children born after December 1, 2024; raises Carer's Support Grant by €150 to €2,000.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 33rd Dáil9 Oct 2024
- Second Stage 33rd Dáil15 Oct 2024
- Committee Stage 33rd Dáil15 Oct 2024
- Report Stage 33rd Dáil16 Oct 2024
- Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil16 Oct 2024
- Report Stage 26th Seanad22 Oct 2024
- Committee Stage 26th Seanad22 Oct 2024
- Fifth Stage 26th Seanad22 Oct 2024
- Second Stage 26th Seanad23 Oct 2024
- Enacted28 Oct 2024
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