Social Welfare Act, 1980
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Supplementary welfare allowance (new rates and increase for certain adult dependants). |
14.—(1) Section 9 (1) (a) of the Act of 1975 is hereby amended by the substitution for subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of the following subparagraphs: | |
“(i) in the case of a person who has no means, the amount calculated in accordance with section 10 (1) of this Act, or | ||
(ii) in the case of a person who has means, the amount calculated in accordance with section 10 (1) of this Act which would be appropriate in his case if he had no means, less the amount of his weekly means,”. | ||
(2) The following section is hereby substituted for section 10 of the Act of 1975: | ||
“10.—(1) The weekly amount of supplementary welfare allowance payable to a person who has no means as determined under this Act shall, subject to any payment pursuant to section 11 of this Act, be the amount set out in column (2) of Part I of the Eighth Schedule (inserted by the Social Welfare Act, 1980) to the Social Welfare Act, 1952 , increased by— | ||
(a) the amount set out in column (3) of that Part for any period during which— | ||
(i) that person is living with or wholly or mainly maintaining his wife, or | ||
(ii) that person is wholly or mainly maintaining her husband who is incapable of self-support by reason of some physical or mental infirmity, or | ||
(iii) that person being— | ||
(I) a single person, a widow or a widower, or | ||
(II) a married person who is not living with and is neither wholly or mainly maintaining, nor being wholly or mainly maintained by, his spouse, | ||
is wholly or mainly maintaining a female person over the age of 16 years having the care of one or more than one of that person's child dependants, and | ||
(b) the amount set out in column (4) of that Part in respect of a child dependant or each of two such children and, in addition, where there are more than two such children, the amount set out in column (5) of that Part in respect of each such child in excess of two. | ||
(2) In this Act— | ||
‘adult dependant’ means a person in respect of whom an increase of supplementary welfare allowance is payable under subsection (1) (a) of this section; | ||
‘child dependant’ means, in relation to a person, any child, not being an adult dependant, who has not attained the age of 18 years and who is dependent upon that person for support. | ||
(3) The Minister may, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, by regulations vary the weekly amounts of supplementary welfare allowance specified in Part I of the said Eighth Schedule but not so as to reduce any amount so specified. | ||
(4) For the purposes of this section, columns (4) and (5) of the said Eighth Schedule shall be construed as if ‘child dependant’ and ‘child dependants’, respectively, were substituted for ‘qualified child’ and ‘qualified children’.”. | ||
(3) This section shall come into operation on the 7th day of April, 1980. |