Social Welfare Act 2007

Family income supplement (new weekly rates).

4.— (1) The following section is substituted for section 228 (as amended by section 4(1) of the Act of 2006) of the Principal Act:

“228.— Subject to this Act, an allowance (in this Act referred to as ‘family income supplement’) shall be payable out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas in respect of a family where the weekly family income is less than—

(a) in the case of a family which includes only 1 child, €490,

(b) in the case of a family which includes 2 children, €570,

(c) in the case of a family which includes 3 children, €655,

(d) in the case of a family which includes 4 children, €760,

(e) in the case of a family which includes 5 children, €870,

(f) in the case of a family which includes 6 children, €970,

(g) in the case of a family which includes 7 children, €1,090, or

(h) in the case of a family which includes 8 or more children, €1,170.”.

(2) This section comes into operation on 3 January 2008.