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Social Welfare Act, 2001

Family income supplement (new weekly rates — euro).

35.—(1) The Principal Act is amended by the substitution for section 198 (as amended by section 7 of this Act) of the following section:

“Entitlement to supplement.

198.—Subject to this Act, an allowance (in this Act referred to as ‘family income supplement’) shall be payable out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas in respect of a family where the weekly family income is less than—

(a) in the case of a family which includes only 1 child, €327.60,

(b) in the case of a family which includes 2 children, €353,

(c) in the case of a family which includes 3 children, €378.40,

(d) in the case of a family which includes 4 children, €403.80,

(e) in the case of a family which includes 5 children, €435.60,

(f) in the case of a family which includes 6 children, €461,

(g) in the case of a family which includes 7 children, €482.50, or

(h) in the case of a family which includes 8 or more children, €504.10.”

(2) This section comes into operation on 3 January 2002.