Social Welfare Act, 1952

Increase of benefit for adult dependants.

26.—The weekly rate of disability benefit or unemployment benefit shall be increased by the amount set out in column (3) of Part I of the Third Schedule to this Act for any period during which—

(a) the beneficiary is living with or wholly or mainly maintaining his wife, or

(b) the beneficiary is wholly or mainly maintaining her husband who is incapable of self-support by reason of some physical or mental infirmity, or

(c) the beneficiary, being a single man or a widower, is maintaining wholly or mainly a female person over the age of sixteen years having the care of one or more than one qualified child who normally resides or reside with him,

subject to the restriction that a beneficiary shall not be entitled for the same period to an increase of benefit under this section in respect of more than one person specified in paragraph (c) of this section.