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on a long term basis; and
       (c) is not receiving, on a continuous basis, any payment in the nature of income support (other than a benefit) from the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;
    the rate of benefit applicable to the person under subsection (1) shall be increased by an amount equal to $26 per week reduced by the amount per week of any increase applicable to the person under section 120."; and
    (b) by omitting paragraph (11) (d) and substituting the following paragraph:
       "(d) $5 per week in respect of each dependent child:
           (i) who is a prescribed student child of the person;
           (ii) who was, immediately before 1 January 1988, a student child to whom or in respect of whom a payment of a kind referred to in paragraph 3 (13) (a), (b) or (c) was being made; and
           (iii) who was, immediately before that day, a person in respect of whom an increase in the maximum rate of a prescribed pension was applicable.".
Commencement: 1 January 1988

(6) Section 118 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsections:
    "(1a) Where:
    (a) the living expenses of a married person who is receiving an unemployment benefit or a sickness benefit and of the person's spouse are, or are likely to be, greater than they would otherwise be because those persons are unable to live together as a result of the illness or infirmity of either or both of them;
    (b) the inability is likely to continue indefinitely; and
    (c) the person's spouse is receiving a prescribed pension;
the rate of benefit applicable to the married person shall be the rate specified in paragraph (1) (d).
"(1b) Where:
    (a) the living expenses of a married person who is receiving an unemployment benefit or a sickness benefit and of the person's spouse are, or are likely to be, greater than they would otherwise be because those persons are unable to live together as a result of the illness or infirmity of either or both of them; and
    (b) the inability is likely to continue indefinitely;
the reference in subsection (2) to the rate referred to in paragraph (1) (f) shall be read as a reference to the rate referred to in paragraph (1) (d).".
Commencement: 1 February 1988

Indexation of unemployment and sickness benefits
39. Section 119 of the Principal Act is amended:
    (a) by omitting from subsection (1) the definition of "junior or intermediate rate" and substituting the following definition:
       "junior or intermediate rate' means the rate referred to in paragraph 118 (1) (a) or (b); "; and
    (b) by omitting "1988" from the definition of "year to which this subsection applies" and substituting