Complex sentence: Currently under the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2004 same-sex cohabiting couples are treated as individuals while opposite-sex cohabiting couples are jointly assessed but they get most but not all of the social welfare benefits that married couples can get.
Split into simpler sentences: Currently under the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2004 same-sex cohabiting couples are treated as individuals. Opposite-sex cohabiting couples are jointly assessed but they get most but not all of the social welfare benefits that married couples can get.