Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 2019

One-parent family payment - weekly earnings disregard

20. (1) Part 5 of Schedule 3 to the Principal Act is amended in Rule 1(4) (amended by section 22 of the Act of 2018)—

(a) by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (dc):

“(dc) in calculating the weekly earnings for the purposes of subparagraph (a) for any period commencing on or after 28 March 2019 but before 9 January 2020, an amount of €150,together with half the weekly earnings in excess of that amount, shall be disregarded;”,

and

(b) by the insertion of the following subparagraph after subparagraph (dc):

“(dd) in calculating the weekly earnings for the purposes of subparagraph (a) for any period commencing on or after 9 January 2020, an amount of €165, together with half the weekly earnings in excess of that amount, shall be disregarded.”.

(2) This section comes into operation on 9 January 2020.