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cancellation or termination of a main benefit under the Act, any grant for bridging finance under subclause (1)(c) is affected as follows:

(a) the grant is not payable if the total amount of the work bonus payments in the first two weeks following the date of the last payment of the main benefit is equal to or more than $500.00:

(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply, each dollar of the amount of the grant payable in respect of a week is reduced by each whole dollar amount of the work bonus payment payable in that week”.

In clause 6, second column, replace “, and in the case of assistance of the kind referred to in paragraph (c), not exceeding the weekly rate of the person’s former main benefit under the Act” with “but not more than $1,500.00 in a 52-week period”.

New clause 6A
After clause 6, insert:

“6A Incentive payments

A payment to an eligible person as an incentive for that person to do one or more of the following activities:

(a) enter or retain employment: A lump sum payment not

(b) take up an offer of suitable exceeding $5,000.00”.
employment:

(c) relocate his or her place of residence to enable the person to take up an offer of suitable employment:

(d) relocate his or her place of residence to a location where there are better employment opportunities:

(e) gain employment skills:

(f) enter into study or employment-related training

Clause 8
Below the heading to clause 8, insert:

“(a) Costs preparatory to entering self-employment and to obtain business advice and certain reports”.

Above clause 9, insert:

“(b) Business start-up costs

Financial assistance to assist an eligible person who is entering self-employment to meet essential business start-up costs. In this paragraph, business start-up costs—

(i) includes (without limitation) the costs of leasing premises or purchasing or leasing plant or equipment (including legal fees), or obtaining insurance;

but

(ii) does not include any cost for an income-related purpose or of a kind described in paragraph (a) One or more lump sum payments (not exceeding $10,000.00 in total) set by the chief executive having regard to the amount of any financial assistance provided by the department other than under this programme for an income-related purpose of the person”.

Clause 9
In the heading to clause 9, after “child care”, insert “or care for people with sickness, injury, or disability or elderly people”.

In clause 9, replace “childcare and costs associated with childcare”, with “childcare or care for a person with a sickness, injury, or disability, or who is elderly, and associated costs”.

In clause 9, replace “childcare provider” with “care provider”.

Clause 10
In clause 10, after “careers advice”, insert “or assistance”.

In clause 10, after “choices”, insert “, prepare a curriculum vitae, or improve the person’s interview skills”.

New clause 11A
After clause 11, insert:

“11A Assistance for young people

The purchase for an eligible person who is a young person of youth services or the services of the kind referred to in Regulation 5 of the specified regulations under section 125A of the Act”.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of June 2014.

HON PAULA BENNETT, Minister for Social Development.

Explanatory Note

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

This instrument, most of which comes into force on 1 July 2014, amends the Employment and Work Readiness Assistance Programme (“the principal programme”) as a result of funding for certain programmes of assistance being brought within the coverage of the multi-category appropriation Improved Employment and Social Outcomes Support in Vote: Social Development on that date. It adjusts eligibility criteria and specifications for the kinds of assistance available under the principal programme accordingly, including providing for the revocation of the following welfare programmes and bringing (with amendment) certain criteria and specifications from them under the discretionary provisions of the principal programme:

• the Course Participation Assistance Programme;
• the Training Incentive Allowance Programme;
• the Transition to Work Grant Programme.

Also revoked are the remainder of the Ministerial Guidelines for Employment and Training Assistance. The revocations are subject to transitional and savings provisions. The Ministerial Direction in relation to sections 124(1)(d) and (1A) 2012 relating to the Transition to Work Grant Programme is consequentially revoked.

This instrument also inserts two new kinds of employment or work readiness assistance in the Schedule of the principal programme, clarifies the chief executive’s powers when exercising discretion under the principal programme, inserts additional matters to which the chief executive must (or, in one case, may) have regard when exercising discretion, and makes drafting improvements.

Key to Annotation

1 New Zealand Gazette, 13 March 2014, No. 29, page 837

2 New Zealand Gazette, 21 December 2006, No. 174, page 5102

3 New Zealand Gazette, 10 December 1998, No. 198, page 4695

4 New Zealand Gazette, 1 February 2007, No. 10, page 215

5 New Zealand Gazette, 13 December 2012, No. 148, page 4411

6 New Zealand Gazette, 16 December 1999, No. 193, page 4599

7 New Zealand Gazette, 23 December 2010, No. 179, page 4457

8 New Zealand Gazette, 4 July 2013, No. 85, page 2298

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Housing Support Assistance Programme

Pursuant to section 124(1)(d) of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister for Social Development establishes