4 JULY 2013

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 85

Training Incentive Allowance Programme (as established and approved on 30 November 1998)

Clause 2.1
In clause 2.1, definition of training costs, paragraph (b), replace “invalid’s beneficiary” with “beneficiary receiving a supported living payment under section 40B”.

Clause 5.1.1(a)(i)
In clause 5.1.1(a)(i), replace “A domestic purposes benefit, an invalid’s benefit, or a widow’s benefit” with “sole parent support, a supported living payment”.

Clause 5A
Clause 5A: revoke.

Transition to Work Grant Programme (as established and approved on 23 January 2007)

Clause 4(1)
In clause 4(1), definition of working age benefit, replace paragraphs (a) to (g) with:

“(a) a main benefit under this Act (as defined in section 3(1) of the Act) other than an emergency benefit payable pursuant to section 17(2)(c) of the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act 2001;”.

Schedule 2

Clause 5
Savings provisions

Employment Transition Programme (as established and approved on 23 June 2005)

New clause 9A
After clause 9, insert:

“9A Savings in respect of invalids’ benefits

In this programme,—

“(a) a reference to a supported living payment under section 40B of the Act includes a reference to an invalid’s benefit granted before 15 July 2013 under section 40 of the Act (as it was before its renumbering and amendment by section 16(1) of the Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Act 2013); and

“(b) a reference to an employment trial under section 40K of the Act includes reference to an employment trial commenced before that date under section 44A of the Act before its repeal on that date by section 20 of the Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Act 2013.”

Sole Parent Study Assistance Programme (as established and approved on 16 December 2010)

New clause 6A
After clause 6, insert:

“6A Savings in respect of certain transferees to jobseeker support

“Despite clause 6(1)(a), the chief executive may, in his or her discretion, from time to time grant recoverable assistance under clause 6(1) in respect of a course to any applicant—

“(a) who was transferred to jobseeker support on 15 July 2013 under clause 2(11) of Schedule 32 of the Act or who is a sole parent to whom clause 12(2) of Schedule 32 of the Act applies, and continues to receive it; and

“(b) to whom clause 12(4) of Schedule 32 of the Act for the time being applies; and

“(c) who—

“(i) was eligible for and receiving assistance under this programme at the close of 14 July 2013; or

“(ii) would have been eligible for assistance under this programme at the close of 14 July 2013, but had not applied for it.”

Training Incentive Allowance Programme (as established and approved on 30 November 1998)

New clause 5B
After clause 5A, insert:

“5B Savings in respect of certain transferees to jobseeker support

“(1) Despite clause 5.1.1(a)(i), the chief executive may, for the appropriate period specified in subclause (2), grant, or continue to grant, an allowance under clause 5.1.1 in respect of a course to any applicant receiving jobseeker support,—

“(a) who was transferred to jobseeker support from a domestic purposes benefit, an invalid’s benefit, or a widow’s benefit, or a young parent payment under section 165 of the Act, or the emergency benefit known as the emergency maintenance allowance—

“(i) on 15 July 2013 by clause 2(11) or 10(6) of Schedule 32 of the Act; or

“(ii) at any time after 15 July 2013 either directly or via 1 or more other benefits under section 20H or 81(3) of the Act; and

“(b) if the course is—

“(i) a full-time course within the meaning of the Student Allowances Regulations 1998, to whom clause 12(4) of Schedule 32 of the Act for the time being applies; or

“(ii) not a full-time course within the meaning of the Student Allowances Regulations 1998, whose study in the course does not, in the chief executive’s opinion, prevent the applicant meeting his or her work-test obligations and is a course in which the applicant was studying immediately before 15 July 2013; and

“(c) who—

“(i) was eligible for and receiving an allowance at the close of 14 July 2013; or

“(ii) would have been eligible for an allowance at the close of 14 July 2013, but had not applied for it.

“(2) The period referred to in subclause (1) is—

“(a) for an applicant to whom subclause (1)(b)(i) applies, the period referred to in clause 12(5) of Schedule 32 of the Act:

“(b) for an applicant to whom subclause (1)(b)(ii) applies, a period ending on the date the course referred to in that subparagraph ends in the year.”

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of June 2013.

HON PAULA BENNETT, Minister for Social Development.

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