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SOCIAL SECURITY AND REPATRIATION (BUDGET MEASURES AND ASSETS TEST) ACT 1984 No. 93, 1984 - SECT 10

Rate of unemployment or sickness benefit
10. Section 112 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting paragraph (1)(a) and substituting the following
        paragraphs:



"(a) where the beneficiary is an unmarried person who has not attained the age
of 18 years, has no dependants and is not a person to whom paragraph (aa)
applies-$45 per week;

   (aa) where the beneficiary is an unmarried person who has not attained the
        age of 18 years, has no dependants and who, for a continuous period of
        not less than 26 weeks-

        (i)    has received or would, but for section 114, have received
               payments of a prescribed pension;

        (ii)   was a person in continuous full-time training under a program
               included in the programs known as the Labour Force Programs and
               who received payments under that program the amounts of which
               were calculated by reference to amounts of benefit under this
               section; or

        (iii)  was a person to whom sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) applied
               successively,
not being a person in relation to whom, at any time after that period, neither
sub-paragraph (i) nor (ii) applied-$50 per week;";

   (b)  by omitting from paragraph (1)(b) "$73.60" and substituting "$81.10";

   (c)  by omitting paragraph (1)(c) and substituting the following paragraph:



"(c) where-

        (i)    the beneficiary is an unmarried person and has a dependant; or

        (ii)   the benefit is a sickness benefit and the beneficiary is an
               unmarried person who has attained the age of 18 years and has
               no dependants,
$91.90 per week; or";

   (d)  by omitting from paragraph (1)(d) "$44.35" and substituting "$76.65";

   (e)  by omitting from sub-section (4B) "$8" and substituting "$10";

   (f)  by omitting from paragraph (4D)(c) "$8" and substituting "$10";

   (g)  by omitting from sub-section (5) "$12" and substituting "$14"; and

   (h)  by omitting from paragraph (6)(c) "$12" and substituting "$14".



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