Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 October 2019
617. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the location in which the method for means testing for various social protection payments is laid out in legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42144/19]
View answerThe rules as to the calculation of means for means-tested schemes, including Supplementary Welfare Allowance, are set out in Schedule 3 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 2005.
In addition to Schedule 3 of the Act, the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) Regulations, 2007 (S.I. No. 142 of 2007), articles 7 to 12 and Chapter 6 of Part 3 in particular, and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare) Allowance Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 412of 2007), Part 6 in particular, set out the means testing rules that are applied.
