Social Welfare Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1962

Rates of unemployment assistance.

3.—(1) In the Act of 1933 for the Schedule thereto inserted by section 3 of the Act of 1961, there is hereby substituted the following:

“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 urban area

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

per week

per week

Person without a dependant

24s.   0d.

18s.   0d.

Person with an adult dependant

42s.   6d.

34s.   6d.

Person with an adult dependant and one child dependant

52s.   6d.

44s.   6d.

Person with an adult dependant and two or more child dependants

62s.   6d. plus, where there are more than two child dependants, 5s. for each child dependant in excess of two.

54s.   6d. plus, where there are more than two child dependants, 5s. for each child dependant in excess of two.

Person with one child dependant

34s.   0d.

28s.   0d.

Person with two or more child dependants

44s.   0d. plus, where there are more than two child dependants, 5s. for each child dependant in excess of two.

38s.   0d. plus, where there are more than two child dependants, 5s. for each child dependant in excess of two.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1962.