Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

Weekly rate of payment.

[1996 s7(1)]

235.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), the weekly rate of continued payment shall be the amount payable to the person by way of an increase in unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance (as the case may require) in respect of each qualified child normally residing with the person immediately before that person takes up employment.

[1996 s7(1)]

(2) In the case of a person who immediately before he or she takes up employment was in receipt of unemployment assistance, where the rate calculated under this section exceeds the rate of unemployment assistance which was payable to the person, the continued payment shall be payable at that rate of unemployment assistance.