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after 31 March 2011, the amount of the temporary GST assistance payment is calculated only on the proportion of the instalment (calculated over a 7-day period) that is payable in respect of an eligible period.

(3) The calculated amount of a temporary GST assistance payment must be rounded to the nearest cent.

10. Payment of assistance—The chief executive must pay any temporary GST assistance payment to or on account of the eligible recipient.

11. Commencement of assistance—No temporary GST assistance payment may be made to an eligible recipient earlier than the commencement of that person’s specified payment.

12. End of assistance—Assistance under this programme ends on the earlier of the following dates:

(a) If an eligible recipient ceases to be entitled to receive a specified payment (payment A) and does not on that cessation become entitled to receive another specified payment, on the date on which payment A ends;

(b) 31 March 2011.

Explanatory note
This note is not part of the programme but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This programme, which comes into effect on 1 October 2010, provides time-limited special assistance until 31 March 2011 to compensate for the effect of the increase in the rate of goods and services tax on the purchasing power of specified payments. This term is defined as meaning any of the main benefits under the Social Security Act 1964, New Zealand superannuation and veterans’ pensions, and student allowances.

The special assistance is in the form of temporary GST assistance payments calculated on 2.02% of the net-of-tax amount of the specified payment payable.

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Instrument Amending Ministerial Direction and Welfare Programmes (No. 2) 2010

Pursuant to sections 5 and 124(1)(d) of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister for Social Development and Employment makes the following instrument amending the Ministerial directions and welfare programmes set out in the Schedule.

Dated this 29th day of August 2010.

HON PAULA BENNETT, Minister for Social Development and Employment.

Instrument

1. Title—This instrument is the Instrument Amending Ministerial Direction and Welfare Programmes (No. 2) 2010.

2. Commencement—This instrument comes into effect on 27 September 2010.

3. Amendments relating to the enactment of the Social Security (New Work Tests, Incentives, and Obligations) Amendment Act 2010—The Ministerial direction and welfare programmes set out in the Schedule are amended in the manner set out in that Schedule.

Schedule

Ministerial Direction and Welfare Programmes amended

Course Participation Assistance Programme
(as established and approved on 6 December 2006)¹

Clause 4(1), definition of service plan

Omit and substitute:

“service plan means a plan made in accordance with the applicant’s—

(a) work test obligations under section 102A(1)(f) of the Act; or

(b) employment planning obligations under section 60Q(1) of the Act; or

(c) obligations under section 60GAB(2)(a) or (b) or section 60GAB(3) of the Act; or

(d) a plan that the chief executive determines is analogous to either (a), (b) or (c)”.

Direction on Advance Payment of Benefits
(given on 25 May 1999)²

Clause 7.2.1(a)

Insert “or section 102A(1)(f) of the Act” after “agreement”.

Insert “, activity of a kind referred to in section 102A(1)(f) of the Act,” after “job seeker development activity”.

Clause 7.2.5

Revoke and substitute:

“7.2.5 In clause 7.2—

job seeker agreement means a job seeker agreement continued in force by section 37(1) of the Social Security (New Work Tests, Incentives, and Obligations) Amendment Act 2010

job seeker development activity means a job seeker development activity continued in force by section 37(2) of that Act.”

Recoverable Assistance Programme
(as established and approved on 17 June 1996)

Clause 12A.2.2(a)

Omit “Organised Activity” and substitute “activity of a kind that a work-tested beneficiary could be required to participate in or undertake under section 102A(1)(f) of the Act”.

Recoverable Assistance for Study Costs Programme
(as established and approved on 17 December 2009)³

Clause 7(1)(a)

Omit “personal development and”.

Special Needs Grant Programme
(as established and approved on 18 December 1998)⁴

Clause 3.1, definition of non-entitlement period

Omit “115, or 116” and substitute “or 117”.

Clause 9.11

Insert “under” after “reduced”.

Definitions following clause 11.8.3

Omit “job seeker development activity, Social Security Act 1964, s 88A”.

Clause 17.3.1(d)

Omit “an independent youth benefit,”.

Clause 17.3.1(d)(ii)

Omit “in writing”.

Clause 17.3.1(d)(ii)(B)

Omit and substitute:

“(B) the chief executive proposes participation in an activity of a kind referred to in section 102A(1)(f) of the Act approved for the purposes of section 123B of the Act.”

Clause 17.5.1(b)

Omit “a job seeker development activity” and substitute “an activity of the kind referred to in section 102A(1)(f) of the Act.”