Social Welfare Act, 1970

Amendment of section 26 of Act of 1952 (increase of benefit for adult dependants).

8.—Section 26 of the Act of 1952 is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (4) (inserted by the Act of 1968) of the following subsections:

“(5) The weekly rate of invalidity pension shall be increased by the amount set out in column (3) of Part I of the Third Schedule to this Act for—

(a) any period during which—

(i) the beneficiary is living with or wholly or mainly maintaining his wife, or

(ii) the beneficiary is wholly or mainly maintaining her husband who is incapable of self-support by reason of some physical or mental infirmity, or

(b) any period during which the beneficiary, being a single man or a widower, is wholly or mainly maintaining a female person over the age of sixteen years having the care of one or more than one qualified child who normally resides or reside with him,

subject to the restriction that a beneficiary shall not be entitled for the same period to an increase of pension in respect of more than one person specified in paragraph (b) of this subsection.

(6) The weekly rate of retirement pension shall be increased by the amount set out in column (3) of Part I of the Third Schedule to this Act for any period during which—

(a) the beneficiary is living with or wholly or mainly maintaining his wife, or

(b) the beneficiary is wholly or mainly maintaining her husband who is incapable of self-support by reason of some physical or mental infirmity.”