Social Welfare Act, 2002

Family income supplement (new weekly rates).

4.—(1) The Principal Act is amended by substituting the following for section 198 (inserted by section 4(1) of the No. 2 Act of 2001):

“198.—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, €379,

(b) in the case of a family which includes 2 children, €405,

(c) in the case of a family which includes 3 children, €430,

(d) in the case of a family which includes 4 children, €455,

(e) in the case of a family which includes 5 children, €487,

(f) in the case of a family which includes 6 children, €513,

(g) in the case of a family which includes 7 children, €534, or

(h) in the case of a family which includes 8 or more children, €556.”.

(2) This section comes into operation on 2 January 2003.