Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981
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Payment of unemployment assistance. [1933 UA. s. 19; 1952, s. 96] |
150.—(1) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to the payment of unemployment assistance— | |
(a) no unemployment assistance shall be payable in respect of the first 3 days of continuous unemployment in any continuous period of unemployment; | ||
(b) no unemployment assistance shall be paid for any period less than one day; | ||
(c) for the purposes of this section, no time prior to the relevant application for unemployment assistance shall be reckoned as, or as part of, a period of unemployment; | ||
(d) no time during which a person is disqualified for receiving unemployment assistance shall be reckoned in the computation of any period of unemployment of such person; | ||
(e) subject to the provisions of this Chapter (including this section), unemployment assistance shall be paid at the prescribed times and in the prescribed manner. | ||
[1960 MP, s. 11; 1974 (No. 2), s. 25] | ||
(2) Subsection (1) (a) shall not apply in relation to the payment of unemployment assistance to a person who ceased, not earlier than 20 weeks before the day in respect of which his application for unemployment assistance is made, to be entitled to unemployment benefit— | ||
(a) by reason of having, by virtue of section 34 (1), exhausted his title to such benefit, or | ||
(b) if the person is over 65 years of age, by reason of having failed to satisfy the contribution condition set out in section 30 (1) (b). |