Social Welfare Act, 1990

Amendment of section 125 of Principal Act (payments after death).

33.— Section 125 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (a) (inserted by section 17 of the Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1987 ) of subsection (2) of the following paragraph:

“(a) where a person who is in receipt of benefit which includes an increase in respect of an adult dependant, or which would include such an increase but for the receipt by that person's spouse of a pension under Chapter 3 of Part III in his own right, dies, payment of the benefit shall continue to be made for a period of 6 weeks after the date of death and shall during that period be made to such person and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, and”.