✨ Welfare Programme Amendments
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 26 — 19 MARCH 2015
disability services under that Act".
In clause 3.1, insert in its appropriate alphabetical order:
"subsidy, in relation to a health agency, includes a payment, contribution, or other financial assistance provided by that agency".
Special Needs Grants Programme
(as established and approved on 18 December 1998)¹⁰
Clause 3.1
In clause 3.1, definition of cash assets, paragraph (l), replace "applies" with "applies;".
In clause 3.1, definition of cash assets, after paragraph (l), insert:
"(m) money the person has been required to contribute in lieu of rent and held to the credit of the person by a provider contracted by the department to provide short-term accommodation to the person and his or her household under the Government’s short-term housing response scheme in Christchurch".
In clause 3.1, definition of health agency, replace paragraph (g) with:
"(g) the general manager (within the meaning of the Veterans’ Support Act 2014) in respect of any subsidy for disability services under that Act".
In clause 3.1, insert in its appropriate alphabetical order:
"subsidy, in relation to a health agency, includes a payment, contribution, or other financial assistance provided by that agency".
Special Transfer Allowance Programme 2000
(as established and approved on 13 November 2000)¹¹
Schedule
In the Schedule, replace “$264”, “$211”, “$169”, “$340”, “$277” and “$243” with “$282”, “$214”, “$175”, “$355”, “$284” and “$253” respectively.
Dated at Wellington this 12th day of March 2015.
Hon ANNE TOLLEY, Minister for Social Development.
Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the instrument, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This instrument, which comes into effect on 1 April 2015, amends two Ministerial directions and a number of Ministerial welfare programmes under the Social Security Act 1964.
Clause 4 and Schedule 1 adjusts certain rates, standard costs, and limits to reflect a 0.51% increase in the New Zealand Consumers Price Index from the December 2013 quarter to the December 2014 quarter (calculated using the CPI All Groups excluding cigarettes and other tobacco products).
Clause 4 and Schedule 2 amends:
- the Home Help Programme, to adjust the hourly rate to reflect a 3.51% increase in the adult minimum wage;
- the Special Transfer Allowance Programme 2000 to adjust average regional rents to reflect movements in rentals;
- a Ministerial direction and a number of welfare programmes to make consequential amendments resulting from the Veterans’ Support Act 2014 replacing the War Pensions Act 1954;
- a Ministerial direction and two welfare programmes to exempt from treatment as cash assets money held to the credit of a person under the Government’s short-term housing response scheme in Christchurch.
Key to Annotations
1 New Zealand Gazette, 16 December 1999, No. 193, page 4599.
2 New Zealand Gazette, 15 December 2005, No. 207, page 5275.
3 New Zealand Gazette, 17 December 1998, No. 200, page 4769.
4 New Zealand Gazette, 11 July 2002, No. 78, page 2079.
5 New Zealand Gazette, 13 March 2014, No. 29, page 837.
6 New Zealand Gazette, 16 December 1999, No. 193, page 4599.
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Social Security, Welfare Programmes, Amendments, Veterans' Support Act 2014, Financial Adjustments, Special Needs Grants Programme, Special Transfer Allowance Programme 2000
- Hon ANNE TOLLEY, Minister for Social Development