Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981
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Unemployment assistance granted to persons in receipt of supplementary welfare allowance. [1935 UA, s. 16; 1953 HA, s. 69; S.I. No. 168 of 1977 ] |
152.—Where— | |
(a) in respect of any period a health board has granted supplementary welfare allowance to or on account of a person who, though entitled to unemployment assistance, is not at that time receiving payments on account thereof, and | ||
(b) the said allowance is in excess of the amount which would have been granted to that person if he had been receiving payment on account of unemployment assistance, and | ||
(c) any sum (in this subsection referred to as the arrears) accruing in respect of any part of the said period on account of unemployment assistance subsequently becomes payable to that person, and | ||
(d) the health board has, before the arrears are paid to that person, certified to the Minister the amount (in this subsection referred to as the excess) so paid by the board in excess for the period in respect of which the arrears accrued, | ||
the Minister may deduct from the arrears an amount not exceeding the amount of the excess and shall, in such case, pay to the health board the amount so deducted. |