Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 section 173

Entitlement to payment

Section 173 establishes the entitlement to one-parent family payment and sets out the categories of persons who may qualify, together with the circumstances in which payment ceases.

• One-parent family payment is available to qualifying individuals who have not yet reached pensionable age.
• Eligible claimants include qualified parents and certain other separated, deserted or unmarried parents.
• Payment ceases when the recipient marries, remarries, or enters into a civil partnership.
• The claimant must be habitually resident in the State to receive payment.