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Social Welfare Act, 1977

Unemployment assistance (new rates).

4.—(1) In the Act of 1933, the Schedule to this section is hereby substituted for the Schedule to that Act inserted by the Act of 1976.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section—

(a) the Schedule to the Act of 1933 inserted by the Act of 1976 shall continue to apply in the case of a person for whom the yearly value of any advantage accruing to him from the use of land, the rateable valuation of which exceeds £10 but does not exceed £15 and which is personally used or enjoyed by him, is calculated in accordance with section 8 of the Act of 1965 and, accordingly, the rates of unemployment assistance to be taken into account in the case of such a person for the purposes of section 10 (3) (c) (inserted by the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1962 ) of the Act of 1933 shall be those specified in the Schedule so inserted, and

(b) the Schedule to the Act of 1933 inserted by the Act of 1975, as varied by the Social Welfare (Variation of Rates of Payment) Regulations, 1975 (S.I. No. 215 of 1975), shall continue to apply in the case of a person for whom the yearly value of any advantage accruing to him from the use of land, the rateable valuation of which exceeds £15 but does not exceed £20 and which is personally used or enjoyed by him, is calculated in accordance with section 8 of the Act of 1965 and, accordingly, the rates of unemployment assistance to be taken into account in the case of such a person for the purposes of section 10 (3) (c) (inserted by the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1962 ) of the Act of 1933 shall be those specified in that Schedule as so varied.

(3) This section shall come into operation on the 30th day of March, 1977.

SCHEDULE

Rates of Unemployment Assistance

Classes of persons to whom the rates of unemployment assistance set out in this Schedule are applicable

Weekly rate of unemployment assistance applicable to persons resident in any urban area

Weekly rate of unemployment assistance applicable to persons resident in any other place

Person without a dependant

£10·20

£9·80

Person with an adult dependant

£17·60

£17·05

Person with an adult dependant and one child dependant

£20·75

£20·20

Person with an adult dependant and two or more child dependants

£23·90

£23·35

plus, where there are more than two child dependants, £2·40 for each child dependant in excess of two.

plus, where there are more than two child dependants, £2·40 for each child dependant in excess of two.

Person with one child dependant

£13·50

£13·10

Person with two or more child dependants

£16·65

£16·25

plus, where there are more than two child dependants, £2·40 for each child dependant in excess of two.

plus, where there are more than two child dependants, £2·40 for each child dependant in excess of two.