Social Welfare Act 2021
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Back to work family dividend - Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment | ||
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15. Section 238B(c) (amended by section 6 of the Social Welfare Act 2019 ) of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following: | ||
“the person has, immediately before the date on which he or she ceased to claim or ceased to be entitled to the benefit, allowance or payment concerned, in any continuous period of unemployment been in receipt of such benefit, allowance or payment in respect of— | ||
(i) not less than 312 days of unemployment, of which not less than 156 days of unemployment have occurred in the 12 month period commencing immediately before that date, or | ||
(ii) a number of days such that when combined with days spent in receipt of the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment the total shall not be less than 312 days, of which not less than 156 days of unemployment have occurred in the 12 month period commencing immediately before that date.”, | ||
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“the person has, immediately before the date on which he or she ceased to claim or ceased to be entitled to the benefit, allowance or payment concerned, in any continuous period of unemployment been in receipt of such benefit, allowance or payment in respect of not less than 312 days of unemployment, of which not less than 156 days of unemployment have occurred in the 12-month period commencing immediately before that date.”. |