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Social Welfare Act, 1979
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Supplementary welfare allowance (new rates).

11.—(1) The weekly amounts payable under section 10 of the Act of 1975, and set out in the Table to subsection (1) of that section (as amended by the Act of 1978), shall be the amounts set out in the Table to this section.

(2) This section shall come into operation on the 2nd day of April, 1979.

TABLE

Weekly Amounts of Supplementary Welfare Allowance

Classes of persons to whom the amounts of supplementary welfare allowance are applicable

Weekly amount of supplementary welfare allowance

(1)

(2)

Person without a dependant

£12·70

Person with an adult dependant

£22·05

Person with an adult dependant and one child dependant

£26·15

Person with an adult dependant and two or more child dependants

£30·25

plus, where there are more than two child dependants, £3·10 for each child dependant in excess of two.

Person with one child dependant

£17·00

Person with two or more child dependants

£21·10

plus, where there are more than two child dependants, £3·10 for each child dependant in excess of two.