Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Act 2020
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Amendment of section 7 of Principal Act | ||
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6. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (4): | ||
“(5) Benefit to be paid or provided for out of the Social Insurance Fund shall include such sums as the Minister may estimate on the basis that may be agreed between the Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of the payments, commonly known as the pandemic unemployment payments, made under section 202 on and after 13 March 2020 to the relevant date to address the adverse economic effects of the spread of the disease known as Covid-19 and such payments shall be treated as having been paid under— | ||
(a) Chapter 12 of Part 2, insofar as those payments relate to persons to whom that Chapter applies, | ||
(b) Chapter 12A of Part 2, insofar as those payments relate to self-employed contributors to whom that Chapter applies, or | ||
(c) Chapter 2 of Part 3, insofar as those payments relate to persons to whom that Chapter applies. | ||
(6) In subsection (5), ‘relevant date’ means the date on which Chapter 12B (inserted by section 11 of the Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Act 2020) comes into operation.”. |