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(a) the principles in section 1B of the Act; and

(b) any key result areas and performance targets set by the Minister in relation to money appropriated by Parliament that may be used for the purpose of granting special assistance under this programme; and

(c) the following principles:

(i) employment or work readiness assistance is available to all people within New Zealand’s working-age population or who are young persons who are at risk of long-term benefit receipt, and prioritised to those at greatest risk:

(ii) employment or work readiness assistance will be monitored, evaluated, and where practicable, based on evidence of ‘what works’:

(iii) employment or work readiness assistance resources will be allocated where the potential benefits are greatest:

(iv) employment or work readiness assistance should minimise adverse impacts on the labour market and should not substitute or displace people within New Zealand’s workforce:

(d) until the close of 30 June 2014, the Ministerial guidelines for Employment and Training Assistance dated 2 July 2012 (including those provisions revoked by clause 12).

9. Amount of assistance—No grant of a specified kind of assistance under clause 6(1) may exceed the amount specified in relation to that kind of assistance in the Schedule except as provided in that schedule.

10. Payment of assistance—The chief executive may, in his or her discretion, having regard to the kind of assistance, pay any assistance granted under clause 6(1),—

(a) to or on account of the grantee personally; or

(b) to an employer of the grantee; or

(c) if the assistance is for the purpose of purchasing any goods or services for the grantee, to the provider of the goods or services to the grantee; or

(d) in any other manner the chief executive thinks fit; or

(e) as a periodical payment or payment of a lump sum in advance of the period or part of the period for which it is granted.

11. Commencement, suspension, and ending of assistance—(1) Employment or work readiness assistance granted under clause 6(1) commences on such date as the chief executive specifies when making the grant.

(2) Assistance granted under clause 6(1) ends on the earlier of—

(a) the expiry of the period for which it was granted; and

(b) a date reasonably determined by the chief executive that the grantee has failed to comply with any condition of the grant.

(3) Assistance granted under clause 6(1) is not payable during any period in which the grantee’s main benefit under the Act is not payable, or is suspended, under section 75B(6) or (7) of the Act.

12. Revocations—(1) The Ministerial Guidelines for Employment and Training Assistance dated 2 July 2012 (other than the provisions referred to in subclause (2)) are revoked.

(2) The following provisions of the guidelines are not revoked:

(a) so much of the guidelines as relate to job streams and flexi-wage but only for the purpose of granting the flexi-wage subsidy and flexi-wage capitalisation grant under self-employment assistance:

(b) so much of the guidelines as provide for extra employment support for people with ill health and/or disabilities (other than provision for PATHs).

13. Savings and transitional provisions—(1) Subclause (2) applies to any person in respect of whom employment or training assistance was being paid or had been granted by the department under the provisions of the Ministerial Guidelines for Employment and Training Assistance that are revoked by clause 12 (the revoked provisions)—

(a) immediately before the commencement of this programme; and

(b) for a period that ends after that commencement (the specified period).

(2) On and after the commencement of this programme, so long as a person to whom this subclause applies would have remained entitled to employment or training assistance under the revoked provisions, that assistance must be paid or continue to be paid under this programme for the remainder of the specified period as if it were employment or work readiness assistance that had been granted under clause 6(1).

(3) Despite clause 12, during the period ending with the close of 30 June 2014, the revoked provisions continue in effect for the purposes of clause 8(d).

Schedule
Clauses 6(1), 6(4), 9

Kinds and amounts of employment or work readiness assistance

Kind of assistance Amount

1 Work confidence and motivation assistance

The purchase for an eligible person of services (whether provided by an instrument of the Crown or a contracted service provider) designed to help people who are at risk of long-term benefit dependency to increase their motivation, confidence, and job searching skills, or for overcoming other factors that impede their entering or continuing employment, or both, including (but not limited to) domestic and social circumstances or drug or alcohol use Not more than $10,000 in total (GST inclusive) within a 52-week period, subject to clause 12 of this Schedule

2 Wage subsidies

The purchase (by way of a subsidy towards the person’s wages or salary for a period agreed with the employer) of an employment place for an eligible person at risk of long-term benefit dependency to assist the person to gain the employment skills required to obtain unsubsidised employment A weekly amount not more than the minimum rate of wage (as from time to time prescribed under the Minimum Wage Act 1983) payable to an adult worker paid by the hour for employment of 30 hours in a week (GST inclusive), subject to clauses 7(b) and 12 of this Schedule