Unemployment Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1938

SCHEDULE.

RATES OF UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.

Classes of persons to whom the rates of unemployment assistance set out in this Schedule are applicable

Rate of unemployment assistance applicable to persons resident in any county borough or in the borough of Dun Laoghaire

Rate of unemployment assistance applicable to persons resident in any urban area (which is not a county borough or the borough of Dun Laoghaire)

Rate of unemployment assistance applicable to persons resident in any other place

per week

per week

per week

s.

d.

s.

d.

s.

d.

Man with no dependants

10

6

8

0

6

0

Man with dependent wife and no other dependant

15

0

11

6

10

0

Man with dependent wife and one other dependant

16

6

13

0

11

0

Man with dependent wife and two other dependants

18

6

14

6

12

0

Man with dependent wife and three other dependants

20

0

15

6

13

0

Man with dependent wife and four other dependants

22

0

16

6

14

0

Man with dependent wife and five or more other dependants

23

0

17

6

14

0

Any person who is—

(a) a married man whose wife is not a dependant;

(b) a widower; or

(c) a single man

and who has one dependant

14

0

10

6

8

6

who has two dependants

15

6

11

6

9

6

who has three dependants

17

6

12

6

10

6

who has four or more dependants

19

0

14

0

11

6

Married woman with dependent husband and no other dependant

12

6

10

0

7

6

Married woman with dependent husband and one other dependant

14

6

11

0

9

0

Married woman with dependent husband and two other dependants

16

0

12

0

10

0

Married woman with dependent husband and three other dependants

18

0

13

0

11

0

Married woman with dependent husband and four other dependants

19

6

14

6

12

0

Married woman with dependent husband and five or more other dependants

20

6

15

6

13

0

A person who is any of the following:

(a) a spinster;

(b) a widow;

(c) a married woman who is not a dependant of her husband, and whose husband is not a dependant, and who has one dependant

12

6

10

0

7

6

who has two dependants

14

6

11

0

9

0

who has three dependants

16

0

12

0

10

0

who has four or more dependants

18

0

13

0

11

0

A person who is a widow or a spinster and has no dependant

8

6

7

0

5

6