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15. GCAP payments usually payable to provider—(1)
    Except as provided in subclause (2), GCAP payments for each eligible child must be paid to the provider of the approved early-childhood education programme in which the child is enrolled.

(2) The chief executive may pay a lump sum GCAP payment directly to an applicant if—

(a) the sum represents an underpayment of the amounts that should have been paid to the provider of an approved early-childhood education programme in respect of an eligible child’s participation in that programme; and

(b) the applicant has already paid the amount of the underpayment to that provider.

16. Overpayments recoverable—If, because an eligible child has ceased to be enrolled or has been absent from an approved early-childhood education programme, GCAP payments have been paid in excess of the amount the applicant was entitled to under this programme, the amount of the excess is recoverable from,—

(a) the applicant; and

(b) to the extent it was paid to the provider of an approved early-childhood education programme, that provider.

17. Consequential revocations—(1) Revoke the following provisions of the TIA programme¹:

(a) In clause 2.1, paragraph (b) of the definition of applicant, and the definitions of childcare payments, eligible child, Regulations, and secondary school:

(b) Part 2.

(2) Revoke the Training Incentive Allowance Amendment (No 2) 2005².

18. Transitional provisions—(1) This subclause applies to any person who, immediately before the commencement of this programme, was receiving or had, on an application made before that commencement, been granted young parent childcare payments under Part 2 of the TIA programme in respect of an eligible child’s attendance at an approved early-childhood education programme.

(2) On the commencement of this programme, a person to whom subclause (1) applies is entitled to receive, without further application, GCAP payments in respect of the eligible child as if granted under clause 7 so long as he or she continues to meet the eligibility requirements for those payments under this programme.

(3) This subclause applies to any person who, before the commencement of this programme, had made application for young parent childcare payments under the TIA programme but had not yet been granted young parent childcare payments under that programme.

(4) On the commencement of this programme, the application of a person to whom subclause (3) applies must be treated as an application for GCAP payments under this programme.

(5) This subclause applies to any overpayments of young parent childcare payments that are recoverable under former clause 18 of the TIA programme.

(6) Any overpayments to which subclause (5) applies must be treated as overpayments of GCAP payments for the purpose of clause 16 of this programme.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of August 2012.

HON PAULA BENNETT, Minister for Social Development.

Explanatory Note

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

This programme provides for a new form of childcare assistance called the guaranteed childcare assistance payment (GCAP).

Young parents receiving a young parent payment or who are the spouses or partners of specified beneficiaries are (subject to compliance with certain conditions) entitled to GCAP if their eligible children attend an approved early-childhood education programme while they are complying with obligations under section 170(1)(a) to (c) of the Act (youth activity obligations) or for up to 15 hours a week when they are working part-time in addition to complying with youth activity obligations.

Young parents not in receipt of a benefit under the Act who are returning to or remaining in a course of secondary instruction may (subject to compliance with certain conditions) be granted GCAP in the discretion of the chief executive if their eligible children attend an approved early-childhood education programme while they participate in that course or for up to 15 hours a week when they are working part-time in addition to participating in that course.

GCAP replaces young parent childcare assistance under the Training Incentive Allowance Programme, and the provisions of that programme relating to that assistance are revoked.

GCAP is only available for hours when the child is not receiving free early childhood education and neither childcare assistance under section 61GA of the Act or childcare assistance under any other welfare programme is payable. The rate at which GCAP is payable is $6.00 per hour for up to 50 hours a week and not more than $300.00 a week.

Footnotes

¹New Zealand Gazette, 9 April 1998, No. 53, page 1168

²New Zealand Gazette, 22 December 2005, No. 210, page 5379

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Special Needs Grants Amendment 2012

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

Instrument

1. Title—This instrument is the Special Needs Grants Amendment 2012.

2. Commencement—(1) Clauses 5(2) and 7 come into effect on 15 October 2012.

(2) The rest of this instrument comes into effect on 20 August 2012.

3. Principal programme—This instrument amends the Special Needs Grants Programme (the principal programme).

4. Clause 3 amended (Definitions)—In clause 3.1, insert the following definitions in their appropriate alphabetic order:

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