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Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2008 (No. 2)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart 1 Preliminary and General (s. 1)1. Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.Part 2 Amendment of Social Welfare Acts (ss. 2-25)2. Definitions.3. Child benefit - new rates.4. Early childcare supplement - increase in rate.5. Transfer of pension rights to EC institutions scheme.6. Illness benefit - improvement.7. State pension (non-contributory) - improvements.8. One-parent family payment - increase in income limit and amendment.9. Respite care grant - increase.10. Detention in legal custody.11. State pension (contributory) - homemakers.12. Blind welfare allowance.13. Blind welfare allowance - consequential amendments.14. Blind welfare allowance - commencement and transitional.15. Domiciliary care allowance.16. Domiciliary care allowance - consequential amendments.17. Domiciliary care allowance - commencement and transitional.18. Supplementary welfare allowance.19. Claims.20. Payments to persons other than claimant or beneficiary.21. Provisions with respect to habitual residence.22. Proceedings.23. Schedule 3, Part 2.24. Supplementary welfare allowance - calculation of weekly means.25. Amendments of Act of 2007.Part 3 Amendment of Pensions Act 1990 (ss. 26-29)26. Definitions.27. Registered administrators.28. Trustee training.29. Miscellaneous amendments of Pensions Act 1990.Part 4 Amendment of Other Acts (ss. 30-31)30. Amendment of Family Law Act 1995.31. Amendment of Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996.Schedule 1 Amendments Relating to Supplementary Welfare AllowanceSchedule 2 Formal Amendments of the Pensions Act 1990
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AI Summary of 18. Supplementary welfare allowance.

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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 October 2011 - onwards
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18. Supplementary welfare allowance.

(1) The Principal Act is amended in section 312 by substituting "under section 196, 197 or 198" for "for supplementary welfare allowance".

(2) The Principal Act is amended as indicated in Schedule 1.

(3) Any determination by an employee of the Executive in relation to the award to a person of supplementary welfare allowance made before the commencement of this subsection has effect, on and from that commencement, as a decision by a designated person to award supplementary welfare allowance to that person under Chapter 9 of Part 3 of the Principal Act as amended by subsection (2).

(4) Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, an application made by a person for supplementary welfare allowance has not been finally determined, that application shall be deemed to be an application for supplementary welfare allowance under Chapter 9 of Part 3 of the Principal Act as amended by subsection (2).

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