Social security law in Ireland / Mel Cousins.

"This book was originally published as a monograph in the International encyclopaedia of laws/Social security law."

Includes bibliographical references (page 43) and index.

General introduction -- part I. The institutions -- Public institutions -- Position and competence of the public institutions -- Private institutions -- part II. Contribution and financing -- Contribution regulation for employees -- Contributions for public sector workers and public office holders -- Contributions for the self-employed -- Other contributions -- Government funding -- part III. Health care -- Field of appliction -- Benefits -- part IV. Family allowances -- Child benefit -- Increase for a qualified child -- Guardian's payment -- Maternity benefit and related schemes -- Payments to qualified adults -- One-parent family payment and lone parents' payments -- part V. Incapacity to work, disability and care -- Illness benefit -- Invalidity pension -- Disability allowance -- Blind pension -- Carer's allowance -- Carer's benefit -- Respite care grant -- Domiciliary care allowance -- Mobility allowance -- part VI. Occupational accidents and diseases and deductibility of benefits from awards of damages -- The occupational injuries scheme -- The deductibility of benefits from awards of damages -- part VII. Unemployment -- Jobseeker's benefit -- Jobseeker's allowance -- Farm assist -- Family income supplement -- part VIII. Old-age and survivors' pensions -- State pension (contributory) -- State pension (transition) -- State pension (non-contributory) -- Widow(er)'s and surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension -- Widow(er)'s and surviving civil partner's (non-contributory) pension -- part IX. Payments on or after death -- Bereavement grant -- Widowed or surviving civil partner 's grant -- part X. Minimum income benefit -- Supplementary welfare allowance -- part XI. Means test -- General principles -- Jobseeker's allowance test -- State pension (non-contributory) -- Supplementary welfare allowance -- Long-term payments test -- Nursing home support scheme test -- part XII. Claims, general provisions and adjudication -- Claims -- Accumulation rules (overlapping provisions) -- Residence and absence -- Imprisonment -- Overpayments and repayments -- Distribution of assets -- Adjudication.