Social Welfare Act, 1999

Family income supplement (new weekly rates)

7.—(1) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for section 198 (inserted by section 7 (3) of the Act of 1998) of the following section:

“Entitlement to supplement.

198.— Subject to this Act, an allowance (in this Act referred to as ‘family income supplement’) shall be payable out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas in respect of a family where the weekly family income is less than—

(a) in the case of a family which includes only 1 child, £220,

(b) in the case of a family which includes 2 children, £240,

(c) in the case of a family which includes 3 children, £260,

(d) in the case of a family which includes 4 children, £280,

(e) in the case of a family which includes 5 children, £305,

(f) in the case of a family which includes 6 children, £325,

(g) in the case of a family which includes 7 children, £342, or

(h) in the case of a family which includes 8 or more children, £359.”.

(2) This section shall come into operation on the 3rd day of June, 1999.