Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981
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Commencement of pensions. [1908 OAP, s. 5] |
167.—(1) Old age pension, subject to any directions of the Minister in special cases, shall be paid weekly in advance in such manner and subject to such conditions as to identification or otherwise as the Minister may direct. | |
[1919 OAP, s. 6] | ||
(2) Subject to regulations under section 170 (4) where old age pension is first allowed, the pension shall commence to accrue, and where, by virtue of a decision on any question which has been raised, a pension becomes payable at an increased rate, the pension shall become payable at the increased rate, on the first Friday after the date on which the claim for the pension is received by the social welfare officer or on which the notice of the question is received by the said officer, as the case may be, or on the first Friday after the date on which the claimant or the pensioner first becomes entitled to the pension or on which the pension first becomes payable at the increased rate, whichever is the later, or, if the later of those two dates is a Friday, on that Friday. | ||
(3) Where a public holiday within the meaning of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 , falls on a Friday, the Minister may, if he thinks fit, direct that sums payable by way of old age pensions on that Friday shall be paid on some other day, whether earlier or later. |