2298 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 85 4 JULY 2013

This instrument, which comes into force on 15 July 2013, amends a number of Ministerial directions and welfare programmes under the Social Security Act 1964 ("the Act").

Clause 4 and Schedule 1 primarily updates references to benefits and sections under which those benefits are granted with references to the replacement benefits and sections enacted in the Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Act 2013. A number of references to specific benefits are replaced with references to the new definition of the term main benefit under this Act inserted into section 3(1) of the Act.

Clause 5 and Schedule 2 creates savings provisions for certain beneficiaries who on 15 July 2013 transfer to jobseeker support or supported living payment under section 40B of the Act from certain former benefits.

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Work Bonus Programme

Pursuant to sections 5 and 124(1)(d) of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister for Social Development establishes and approves the following welfare programme of special assistance and consequentially amends the Ministerial directions and welfare programmes specified in the Schedule.

Programme

1. Title—This programme is the Work Bonus Programme.

2. Commencement—This programme comes into effect on 15 July 2013.

3. Purpose—The purpose of this programme is to provide a financial incentive for specified beneficiaries without work-test obligations to gain and commence paid employment, or increase their hours of work, in order to cease receiving a main benefit under the Act.

4. Interpretation—(1) In this programme, unless the context otherwise requires:

Act means the Social Security Act 1964

additional dependent child, in relation to a person, has the same meaning as in section 60GAE(1) of the Act

applicant means a person to whom a work bonus is granted

cancelled, in relation to a specified benefit, includes terminated

cancellation date, in relation to a specified benefit, has the meaning in clause 6(1)(b)

main benefit under the Act has the same meaning as the term main benefit under this Act in section 3(1) of the Act

qualifying employment has the meaning in clause 6(1)(a)

specified beneficiary means a person (A) who:

(a) receives a supported living payment on the grounds of A’s sickness, injury, disability, or total blindness, under section 40B of the Act; or

(b) is the spouse or partner of a person (B) who is receiving a supported living payment under section 40B of the Act on the ground of B’s sickness, injury, disability, or total blindness, if A:

(i) would be qualified in his or her own right to receive a supported living payment under section 40B of the Act; or

(ii) is the principal caregiver in respect of a dependent child (not being an additional dependent child) aged under 5 years or an additional dependent child aged under 1 year; or

(c) receives an emergency benefit analogous to a supported living payment under section 40B of the Act on the grounds of A’s sickness, injury, disability, or total blindness, under section 61 of the Act; or

(d) is the spouse or partner of a person (B) who is receiving an emergency benefit analogous to a supported living payment under section 40B of the Act on the grounds of B’s sickness, injury, disability, or total blindness, if A:

(i) would be qualified in his or her own right to receive an emergency benefit analogous to a supported living payment under section 40B of the Act; or

(ii) is the principal caregiver in respect of a dependent child (not being an additional dependent child) aged under 5 years or an additional dependent child aged under 1 year; or

(e) receives sole parent support under section 20D of the Act and whose youngest dependent child (not being an additional dependent child) is aged under 5 years or is an additional dependent child aged under 1 year; or

(f) receives the emergency benefit known as emergency maintenance allowance and is the principal caregiver in respect of a dependent child (not being an additional dependent child) aged under 5 years or an additional dependent child aged under 1 year; or

(g) who receives a main benefit under the Act pursuant to section 123B(3) of the Act during the person’s satisfactory participation in an approved activity or activities and is a person to whom paragraph (a), (b), or (e) would apply if he or she were receiving a benefit referred to in any of those paragraphs

specified benefit means a benefit referred to in the definition of the term specified beneficiary

unsuitable employment, in relation to a person, means employment that the chief executive considers would not be suitable employment for the person and includes employment:

(a) as a sex worker or as the operator of a brothel (as the terms sex worker, operator, and brothel are defined in the Prostitution Reform Act 2003); or

(b) as a strip-tease artist or lap dancer; or

(c) in the production of any pornographic film or video whether as an actor or otherwise