Social Welfare Act, 1992

Family income supplement (new weekly rates).

6.—(1) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for section 232B (inserted by section 7 of the Act of 1991 ) of the following section:

“Entitlement to family income supplement.

232B.—Subject to this Part, an allowance (in this Part referred to as ‘family income supplement’) shall be payable out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas in respect of a family where the weekly family income is less than—

(a) in the case of a family which includes only one child, £155, or

(b) in the case of a family which includes two children, £175, or

(c) in the case of a family which includes three children, £195, or

(d) in the case of a family which includes four children, £215, or

(e) in the case of a family which includes five children, £240, or

(f) in the case of a family which includes six children, £260, or

(g) in the case of a family which includes seven children, £277, or

(h) in the case of a family which includes eight or more children, £294.”.

(2) This section shall come into operation on the 30th day of July, 1992.