Social Welfare Act, 1957

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Increase of rates of unemployment assistance.

2.—(1) In the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 (No. 46 of 1933), for the Schedule thereto inserted by subsection (1) of section 97 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952), there is hereby substituted the following:—

“SCHEDULE

Rates of Unemployment Assistance.

Classes of persons to whom the rates of unemployment assistance set out in this Schedule are applicable	Rate of unemployment assistance applicable to persons resident in any urban area		Rate of unemployment assistance applicable to persons resident in any other place
	per	week	per	week
	s.	d.	s.	d.
Person without a dependant	19	0	13	0
Person with an adult dependant	30	0	22	0
Person with an adult dependant and one child dependant	36	0	27	0
Person with an adult dependant and two or more child dependants	41	0	31	0
Person with one child dependant	25	0	18	0
Person with two or more child dependants	30	0	22	0

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(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 15th day of May, 1957.