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Social Welfare (Supplementary Welfare Allowances) Act, 1975

Weekly amounts of supplementary welfare allowance for persons of no means.

10.—(1) The weekly amount of supplementary welfare allowance payable to a person who has no means as determined under this Act shall, subject to any payment pursuant to section 11 of this Act, be, in the case of a person of any class mentioned in column (1) of the Table to this subsection, at the weekly amount set out in column (2) of the said Table opposite that mention in the said column (1).

TABLE

WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF SUPPLEMENTARY WELFARE ALLOWANCE

Classes of persons to whom the amounts of supplementary welfare allowance are applicable

Weekly amount of supplementary welfare allowance

(1)

(2)

Person without a dependant

£7·75

Person with an adult dependant

£13·50

Person with an adult dependant and one child dependant

£16·00

Person with an adult dependant and two or more child dependants

£18.50

plus, where there are more than two child dependants £1·90 for each child dependant in excess of two.

Person with one child dependant

£10·40

Person with two or more child dependants

£12·90

plus, where there are more than two child dependants, £1·90 for each child dependant in excess of two.

(2) In this Act—

“adult dependant” means—

(a) in the case of a married man, his wife if she is living with him or is wholly or mainly maintained by him,

(b) in the case of a married woman, her husband if he is incapable of self-support by reason of some physical or mental infirmity and is wholly or mainly maintained by her, and

(c) in the case of a widower or unmarried man, a female person (being a person who has attained the age of sixteen years) having the care of his child dependants and wholly or mainly maintained by him;

“child dependant” means, in relation to a person, any child, not being an adult dependant, who has not attained the age of eighteen years and who is dependent upon that person for support.

(3) The Minister may, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, by regulations vary the weekly amounts of supplementary welfare allowance specified in column (2) of the Table to subsection (1) of this section, but not so as to reduce any amount specified therein.