Social Welfare Act, 2000
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Supplementary welfare allowance — income disregards. |
26.—(1) Rule 1 (1) of Part III of the Third Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by the insertion after paragraph (o) (inserted by section 26(1)(d) of the Act of 1997) of the following paragraph— | |
“(p) in the case of a person in receipt of a supplement under section 179 towards the amount of mortgage interest or rent payable by him or her in respect of his or her residence: | ||
(i) £25, or such higher amount as may be prescribed, from the amount of income derived when gross earnings from employment have been reduced by the aggregate of— | ||
(I) any allowable contribution referred to in Regulations 59 and 60 (inserted by the Income Tax (Employments) Regulations, 1972 ( S.I. No. 260 of 1972 )) of the Income Tax (Employments) Regulations, 1960 ( S.I. No. 28 of 1960 ), | ||
(II) any amount deducted from reckonable earnings pursuant to section 10 and regulations made under section 11, | ||
(III) any amount deducted from reckonable earnings pursuant to section 5 of the Health Contributions Act, 1979 , and | ||
(IV)any amount equal to the amount of reduction, if any, in the rate of unemployment assistance or one-parent family payment under Part III consequent on receipt of the said earnings from employment; | ||
(ii) the amount by which carer's allowance exceeds the amount of supplementary welfare allowance set out in column (3) at reference 10 of the Fourth Schedule, in the case of a claimant, or his or her spouse, who is in receipt of carer's allowance under Part III, | ||
(iii) the amount by which carer's allowance exceeds the amount of supplementary welfare allowance set out in column (2) at reference 10 of the Fourth Schedule, in the case of a claimant who, not being one of a couple, is in receipt of carer's allowance under Part III, | ||
(iv) such amount as may be prescribed from attendance at such training course as may be prescribed;”. | ||
(2) This section comes into operation on 3 April 2000. |