Social Welfare Act, 1993

Payments after death.

10.—Section 125 (2) (as amended by section 9 of the Act of 1991) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after paragraph (e) of the following paragraph:

“(f) subject to paragraph (a), where a person is in receipt of a carer's allowance and the relevant pensioner in respect of whom that carer is providing full-time care and attention, dies, and the carer is the spouse of that pensioner, any benefit payable under paragraph (a) shall include an increase in respect of an adult dependant provided that the person in receipt of the carer's allowance would otherwise have qualified as an adult dependant but for the fact that he was in receipt of the said allowance.”.