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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 100

30 JUNE 2005

2. Commencement—(1) This amendment, except for
   clause 4, comes into effect on 1 July 2005.
   (2) Clause 4 comes into effect on 1 April 2007.

3. Schedule amended—The Schedule of the programme is
   amended by revoking clause 1, and substituting the
   following clauses:

“1 The hourly rate that may be paid for a home helper
is—
(a) $10; plus
(b) an additional 6% of the rate in paragraph (a)
for holiday pay.

“1A If the minimum wage rate for an adult worker paid
by the hour prescribed by Order in Council under
the Minimum Wage Act 1983 increases from the
rate in force on 1 April 2005, the rate in paragraph
(a) of clause 1 must be considered to be increased
by the same proportion as that minimum wage rate
has increased, with effect on,—
(a) except as provided in paragraph (b), the 1 April
following the date on which the minimum
wage rate increase comes into force; or
(b) if the minimum wage rate increase comes into
force on 1 April in a year, that 1 April.”

4. Schedule amended—Clause 1 of the Schedule of the
   programme (as substituted by clause 3) is amended by
   omitting from paragraph (b) the expression “6%”, and
   substituting the expression “8%”.

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the amendment, but is intended to
indicate its general effect.

This amendment to the Home Help Programme:

● changes, on and from 1 July 2005, the hourly rate that
may be paid to a home helper from a maximum of $10.14
including holiday pay to a uniform rate of $10.00 plus
an additional 6% for holiday pay;

● provides for the $10.00 rate to be indexed, on 1 April
each year, to increases in the minimum wage rate
payable to an adult worker paid by the hour from that
applying on 1 April 2005; and

● increases, on 1 April 2007, the additional 6% for holiday
pay to an additional 8%.

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Ministerial Direction – Living Alone Payments
Amendment 2005

To: The Chief Executive of the Ministry of Social
Development.

Pursuant to section 5 of the Social Security Act 1964, the
Minister for Social Development and Employment makes
the following amendment to the Ministerial Direction –
Living Alone Payments given on 23 November 1999.

Dated at Wellington this 28th day of June 2005.

STEVE MAHAREY, Minister for Social Development and
Employment.

Amendment

1. Title—(1) This amendment is the Ministerial Direction –
   Living Alone Payments Amendment 2005.
   (2) In this amendment, the Ministerial Direction – Living
   Alone Payments is called “the direction”.

2. Commencement—This amendment comes into effect
   on 1 July 2005.

3. Direction amended—The direction is amended in the
   manner set out in the Schedule.

Schedule

Clause 3

Amendments to the direction

Omit from the paragraph immediately following the heading
“Grants of Living Alone Payments” the words “section
18A of the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions)
Act 1990” and substitute the words “section 13 of the
New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act
2001 or section 74U of the War Pensions Act 1954”.

Clause 1

Omit from the definition of living alone payment the words
“section 18A of the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions)
Act 1990” and substitute the words “section 13 of the
New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act
2001 or section 74U of the War Pensions Act 1954”.

Clause 2

Omit paragraph (a).

Clause 3

Omit the words “is contributing directly or indirectly to the
cost” and substitute the words “is regularly contributing in a
substantial way to the total cost”.

New clause 3A

Insert, after clause 3:

“3A An applicant should not be considered to be sharing
household expenses with his or her spouse or
partner by reason only that they share a joint bank
account.”

Example

Omit the example immediately before clause 4.

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the amendment, but is intended to
indicate its general effect.

This amendment to the Ministerial Direction – Living Alone
Payments, which comes into effect on 1 July 2005:

● updates references to the statutory provisions relating to
living alone payments;

● omits the provision requiring an applicant to have a
right to exclusive occupation of the residence occupied;

● changes clause 3 of the direction so that regular
contributions in a substantial way to the total cost of
the applicant’s household expenses are considered to be
the sharing of household expenses, instead of direct or
indirect contributions to the cost;

● clarifies that the sharing of a joint bank account between
the applicant and his or her spouse or partner is not by
itself considered to be the sharing of household
expenses;

● omits the example.

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Special Needs Grants Amendment 2005

Pursuant to section 124 (1) (d) of the Social Security Act
1964, the Minister for Social Development and Employment
makes the following amendment to the Special Needs
Grants Programme (as established and approved on
18 December 1998).