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27 1993

SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATION) ACT, 1993

PART III

SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

CHAPTER 1

Description of Social Assistance

Description of assistance.

118. —(1) Assistance under this Part shall be of the following descriptions and is, in each case, so described in this Act—

[1981, s. 134(1); 1988, s. 28(1)(a); 1990, ss. 13, 18(1)]

(a) unemployment assistance,

(b) pre-retirement allowance,

(c) old age (non-contributory) pension,

(d) blind pension,

(e) widow's and orphan's (non-contributory) pensions,

(f) deserted wife's allowance,

(g) prisoner's wife's allowance,

(h) lone parent's allowance,

(i) carer's allowance, and

(j) supplementary welfare allowance.

[1981, s. 134(2)]

(2) Assistance shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.