✨ Special Benefit Amendment
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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 56
24 MARCH 2005
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provision amended | Amounts omitted | Amounts substituted |
| $ | $ | |
| Clause 1 (a) | 70.15 | 72.04 |
| Clause 1 (b) | 97.77 | 100.41 |
| Clause 1 (c) | 183.43 | 188.38 |
| Clause 2 | 70.15 | 72.04 |
| Clause 4 (a) | 93.48 | 96.00 |
| Clause 4 (b) | 132.63 | 136.21 |
| Clause 4 (c) | 241.97 | 248.50 |
| Clause 5 | 103.35 | 106.14 |
| Clause 6 (a) | 93.48 | 96.00 |
| Clause 6 (b) | 132.63 | 136.21 |
| Clause 6 (c) | 103.35 | 106.14 |
| Clause 7 (a) | 132.84 | 136.43 |
| Clause 7 (b) | 132.84 | 136.43 |
| Clause 7 (c) | 242.34 | 248.88 |
| Clause 9 | 154.53 | 158.70 |
| Clause 10 | 222.91 | 228.93 |
| Clause 13 | 173.58 | 178.27 |
| Clause 15 | 241.97 | 248.50 |
Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the amendment, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This amendment to the Ministerial Direction in relation to Special Benefit (“the direction”), which takes effect on 1 April 2005, makes the remaining amendments to the direction arising out of the Working for Families package, including:
- a change to an element of the formula used to assess special benefit for applicants with dependent children to 25% of the applicant’s allowable costs from 1 April 2005. The element remains at 30% of allowable costs for other applicants;
- replacing reference to the invalid’s benefit in cash assets limits with reference to the new Schedule 31 of the Social Security Act 1964 which comes into force on that date;
- replacing the new paragraph (aa) of the definition of chargeable income, which would have been inserted on 1 April 2005 by the Direction in relation to Special Benefit Amendment 2005, with a new paragraph to provide for the inclusion of family support in the assessment of special benefit where it is not paid by instalments.
A savings provision makes it clear that these and the other changes to the direction in the package will not affect a special benefit granted before 1 April 2005 until the benefit is next reviewed.
The amendment also adjusts standard costs in the Schedule of the direction to take into account a 2.70% increase in the Consumers Price Index, and omits provisions of the Schedule relating to grandparented rates of sickness benefit that have become obsolete.
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Instrument Amending Ministerial Directions and Welfare Programmes 2005
Pursuant to section 5 and section 124 (1) (d) of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister for Social Development and Employment, by this instrument, makes the following amendments to the directions and welfare programmes set out in Schedules 1 to 3.
STEVE MAHAREY, Minister for Social Development and Employment.
Dated at Wellington this 17th day of March 2005.
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Instrument
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Title—This instrument is the Instrument Amending Ministerial Directions and Welfare Programmes 2005.
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Commencement—This instrument takes effect on 1 April 2005.
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Amendments relating to Working for Families package—The directions and welfare programmes set out in Schedule 1 are amended in the manner set out in that Schedule.
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Amendments relating to change in Consumers Price Index—The welfare programmes set out in Schedule 2 are amended in the manner set out in that Schedule.
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Other amendments—The welfare programmes set out in Schedule 3 are amended in the manner set out in that Schedule.
Schedule 1
Clause 3
Directions and welfare programmes amended
Direction on advance payment of benefits (given on 25 May 1999)
Revoke the definition of invalid’s benefit in clause 1.1.
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Direction in Relation to Special Benefit Amendment (No. 2) 2005
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🏥 Health & Social Welfare17 March 2005
Social Security Act 1964, Special Benefit, Amendment, Working for Families, Consumers Price Index
- STEVE MAHAREY, Minister for Social Development and Employment