Social Welfare Act, 1952
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Increase of benefit for qualified child or each of two qualified children. |
27.—(1) The weekly rate of disability benefit or unemployment benefit shall be increased by the amount set out in column (4) of Part I of the Third Schedule to this Act in respect of a qualified child or each of two qualified children who normally resides or reside with the beneficiary. | |
(2) The weekly rate of a widow's (contributory) pension shall be increased by the amount set out in column (4) of Part I of the Third Schedule to this Act in respect of a qualified child or each of two qualified children who normally resides or reside with the beneficiary and who— | ||
(a) normally resided with her or the husband immediately before the death of the husband, or | ||
(b) being a child or step-child, or children or step-children, of the husband, became normally resident with her subsequent to the death of the husband. | ||
(3) In this section, “the husband”, in relation to a woman who has been married more than once, refers only to her last husband. |