Social Welfare Act, 1992

Additional increases of lone parent's allowance to certain persons.

43.—Section 198C (inserted by section 12 of the Act of 1990) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection I (2) of the following subsection:

“(3) The weekly rate of lone parent's allowance shall be increased—

(a) by the amount set out in column (7) of Part I of the Fourth Schedule where the person entitled to the allowance has attained pensionable age and is living alone, and

(b) by the amount set out in column (8) of Part I of the Fourth Schedule where the person entitled to the allowance has attained the age of 80 years.”.