Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Act 2020

Amendment of Schedule 2 to Principal Act

13. Schedule 2 to the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following Part after Part 5:

“Part 6

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

The weekly rates of Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payments, subject to any such rate specified in regulations under section 68O, are:

(a) Band A: €203 in the case of a person whose average reckonable weekly income was less than €200, or

(b) Band B: €350 in the case of a person whose average weekly reckonable income was €200 or more.

In this Part, ‘average reckonable weekly income’ means the average reckonable weekly income calculated in accordance with regulations made by the Minister under section 68O.”.