Social Welfare And Pensions (No. 2) Act 2009
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Amendment to section 197 of Principal Act. |
13.— Section 197 (as amended by section 7 of the Act of 2009) of the Principal Act is amended— | |
(a) in subsection (2), by substituting “22” for “20”, | ||
(b) in subsection (3), by substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (a): | ||
“(a) has been in continuous receipt of the allowance from a date on or before 30 December 2009 and where, in the period prior to that date the claimant was not a person to whom subsection (2) applied,”, | ||
(c) in subsection (3)(b), by substituting “22” for “20”, and | ||
(d) by inserting the following subsections after subsection (3): | ||
“(4) Notwithstanding subsection (1), in the case of a person who has attained the age of 22 years but has not attained the age of 25 years and who has no means as determined by this Chapter, and is not entitled to an increase in respect of a qualified child, subject to any payment under section 198, the weekly amount of supplementary welfare allowance payable shall be as set out in column (2) at reference 10(c) (inserted by section 4 of the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2009) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 increased by the amount set out in column (3) of that Part for any period during which the beneficiary has a qualified adult subject to the restriction that the claimant or beneficiary shall not be entitled for the same period to an increase of allowance under this subsection in respect of more than one person. | ||
(5) Subsection (4) shall not apply in the case of a claim for supplementary welfare allowance where the claimant has been in continuous receipt of the allowance from a date on or before 30 December 2009 and where, in the period prior to that date the claimant was not a person to whom subsection (2) applied.”. |