The objects and reasons of this Bill are to introduce amendments, in the Social Security Act, relating to the calculation of a Service Pension, the crediting of contributions for, inter alia, volunteer work or for having the care and custody of a child who suffers from a serious disability, the pensionable income of persons who have partaken of an early retirement scheme, and the rate of pension payable in the case of a resident of a State Financed Residential Service in certain circumstances.