Social Welfare Act 2011
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Entitlement to one-parent family payment. |
7.— (1) Section 173 (amended by section 25 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010 ) of the Principal Act is amended— | |
(a) in subsection (4) by substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (b): | ||
“(b) payable for a period not exceeding 6 consecutive months from the date on which, but for this subsection, that person would have ceased to be so entitled.”, | ||
(b) by substituting the following subsection for subsection (5B): | ||
“(5B) Subject to subsection (5C), subsections (4), (5) and (5A) shall not apply in any case where a person, by virtue of his or her gross weekly earnings exceeding the amount specified for the purposes of subsection (3), ceases to be entitled to one-parent family payment on or after 5 January 2012.”, | ||
and | ||
(c) by inserting the following subsection after subsection (5B): | ||
“(5C) Notwithstanding subsection (5B), a person who qualifies for the continuation of one-parent family payment in accordance with subsection (4) before 5 January 2012 may continue to receive that payment for the unexpired portion of the period of continuation which occurs on or after 5 January 2012 if— | ||
(a) the qualified person continues, during that unexpired portion of that period, to satisfy subsection (4), and | ||
(b) the total period of the continuation of that payment does not exceed, in accordance with subsection (4), 6 months from the date on which, but for that subsection, that person would have ceased to be so entitled.”. | ||
(2) This section comes into operation on 5 January 2012. |