Social Welfare Act 2011

Entitlement to one-parent family payment.

7.— (1) Section 173 (amended by section 25 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010 ) of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (4) by substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (b):

“(b) payable for a period not exceeding 6 consecutive months from the date on which, but for this subsection, that person would have ceased to be so entitled.”,

(b) by substituting the following subsection for subsection (5B):

“(5B) Subject to subsection (5C), subsections (4), (5) and (5A) shall not apply in any case where a person, by virtue of his or her gross weekly earnings exceeding the amount specified for the purposes of subsection (3), ceases to be entitled to one-parent family payment on or after 5 January 2012.”,

and

(c) by inserting the following subsection after subsection (5B):

“(5C) Notwithstanding subsection (5B), a person who qualifies for the continuation of one-parent family payment in accordance with subsection (4) before 5 January 2012 may continue to receive that payment for the unexpired portion of the period of continuation which occurs on or after 5 January 2012 if—

(a) the qualified person continues, during that unexpired portion of that period, to satisfy subsection (4), and

(b) the total period of the continuation of that payment does not exceed, in accordance with subsection (4), 6 months from the date on which, but for that subsection, that person would have ceased to be so entitled.”.

(2) This section comes into operation on 5 January 2012.