Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1963

Rates of unemployment assistance.

3.—(1) In the Act of 1933 for the Schedule thereto inserted by section 3 of the Act of 1962, 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

26s. 6d.

20s. 6d.

Person with an adult dependant

47s. 6d.

39s. 6d.

Person with an adult dependant and one child dependant

57s. 6d.

49s. 6d.

Person with an adult dependant and two or more child dependants

67s. 6d. plus, where there are more than two child dependants, 5s. for each child dependant in excess of two.

59s. 6d. plus, where there are more than two child dependants, 5s. for each child dependant in excess of two.

Person with one child dependant

36s. 6d.

30s. 6d.

Person with two or more child dependants

46s. 6d. plus, where there are more than two child dependants, 5s. for each child dependant in excess of two.

40s. 6d. 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 November, 1963.