Social Welfare Act, 1979

Prisoner's wife's allowance (extension of payment period).

8.—Section 9 of the Act of 1974, which provides for prisoner's wife's allowance, is hereby amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2):

“(2A) A prisoner's wife's allowance shall continue to be paid for a period of four weeks after the release of the prisoner from a prison or place of detention.”.