Social Welfare Act, 1990
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Supplementary welfare allowance granted to persons in receipt of certain payments. |
38.—The Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after section 215 of the following section: | |
“Supplementary welfare allowance granted to persons in receipt of certain payments. | ||
215A.— Where— | ||
(a) in respect of any period a health board has granted supplementary welfare allowance to or in respect of a person and a maintenance allowance under section 69 of the Health Act, 1970 , or a payment under section 44 of the Health Act, 1947 , to a person suffering from an infectious disease, including any increase thereof, subsequently becomes payable to or in respect of that person in respect of the period (or part thereof) for which supplementary welfare allowance was paid, and | ||
(b) such supplementary welfare allowance is in excess of the amount which would have been granted to or in respect of such person if either of the said allowances, including any increase thereof, had been paid during such period, | ||
such excess supplementary welfare allowance shall be treated as payment on account of the said allowances.”. |