Schedule For Increases
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January:
All FIS customers will receive their increase in full from the beginning of January.
Customers on short-term weekly payments (mainly Unemployment Benefit/Assistance, Farm Assist, Disability Benefit, Carer’s Benefit, and Supplementary Welfare Allowance) will receive their increase in full from their first pay-day in January.
Customers on long-term weekly payments who are paid by electronic methods through Post Offices and Banks will receive their increase in full from their first pay-day in January.
February:
Long-term customers on book payments will receive their increase in mid-February backdated to January. In some cases (such as Disability Allowance and Old Age Pensions) an advance payment to end-March will also be paid to those customers whose books are due for renewal at the beginning of April.
April:
Child Benefit customers paid by electronic methods will receive their increase in full from April 2004.
May:
Child Benefit customers on book payments will receive their increase through a special payment in May, which will be backdated to April.
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