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Entitlement to jobseeker’s benefit — amendment.
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16.— Section 62 of the Principal Act is amended—
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(a) by substituting the following subsection for subsection (10):
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“(10) Subject to subsection (10B), the amount payable by way of jobseeker’s benefit for any day of unemployment shall be—
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(a) 16.67 per cent of the appropriate weekly rate where a person is entitled to jobseeker’s benefit for 6 days of unemployment in any payment week,
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(b) 16 per cent of the appropriate weekly rate where a person is entitled to jobseeker’s benefit for 5 days of unemployment only in any payment week,
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(c) 15 per cent of the appropriate weekly rate where a person is entitled to jobseeker’s benefit for 4 days of unemployment only in any payment week,
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(d) 13.33 per cent of the appropriate weekly rate where a person is entitled to jobseeker’s benefit for 3 days of unemployment only in any payment week, and
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(e) 10 per cent of the appropriate weekly rate where a person is entitled to jobseeker’s benefit for 2 days of unemployment only in any payment week.”,
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and
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(b) by inserting the following subsections after subsection (10):
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“(10A) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where a person, other than a person to whom subsection (11) applies, would, but for this subsection, be entitled to jobseeker’s benefit for one day of unemployment only in any payment week, that person shall not be entitled to jobseeker’s benefit in respect of that day of unemployment.
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(10B) The total amount of jobseeker’s benefit payable at any time by virtue of subsection (10) shall be rounded up to the nearest 10 cent where it is a multiple of 5 cent but not also a multiple of 10 cent and shall be rounded to the nearest 10 cent where it is not a multiple of 5 cent or 10 cent.
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(10C) Without prejudice to subsection (5)(d), in subsections (10) and (10A) ‘payment week’ means the period commencing on the Thursday of one week and ending on the Wednesday of the following week.”.
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