✨ Social Welfare and Veterans Affairs Notices
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 32 — 26 MARCH 2015
- the cost of contracted care services provided to the person; or
ii. the cost of the residential care services provided to the person:
c. the person is or has a history of being at risk of being disconnected from essential services or telecommunication services, or of incurring late payment penalties, reconnection charges, or both because of non-payment and the redirection is required to help prevent that risk:
d. the person is a vulnerable tenant and the redirection is required to reassure the person’s landlord, or prospective landlord, that the person will meet his or her rental commitments:
e. the person has been ordered to pay, or is in default of payment of, any fine (within the meaning of section 126A(1) of the Act) and the redirection is required to make payments towards that fine:
f. the person has money due under any judgment or order of any court or tribunal of New Zealand and the redirection is required to make payments towards the amount due:
g. the person is otherwise liable to pay any debt or other liability for goods or services that you consider are essential for the person or any of his or her dependants and the redirection is necessary to make payments towards the amount due:
h. the person has a history of poor financial management and the redirection is necessary to ensure the priority needs (including those relating to essential services, telecommunication costs, accommodation costs, medical care, or education) of the person and his or her dependants are met.
(2) Nothing in subclause (1) requires you to redirect a benefit or an instalment of a benefit if, in the circumstances of the case:
a. you exercise your discretion not to do so; or
b. you consider there would be insufficient funds for the redirection to operate having regard to:
i. any abatement of the person’s benefit due to income:
ii. any required deductions from the person’s benefit under any deduction notice or attachment order under any enactment:
iii. any required reduction of the person’s benefit under any provision of the Act (for example, sections 70, 70A, or 71A).Dated at Wellington this 17th day of March 2015.
Hon ANNE TOLLEY, Minister for Social Development.
Explanatory Note
This note is not part of this instrument, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This direction by the Minister for Social Development sets out a number of circumstances in which the chief executive may consider there is good cause to exercise the discretion in the proviso to section 82(3) of the Act to direct that payment of the whole or any part of an instalment of benefit, or any number of instalments of a benefit be to a person other than the beneficiary personally.
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Notice of New Rates for Entitlements Under the Veterans’ Support Act 2014
Pursuant to sections 30, 31 and 170 of the Veterans’ Support Act 2014, the Veterans’ Support Amendment Regulations 2015 and the Veterans Support (War Pension Rates) Order 2015, the following are the new rates for entitlements under the Veterans’ Support Act 2014 from 1 April 2015.
Grand-Parented Entitlements
War Disablement Pensions: Weekly Rates From 1 April 2015
1. Ordinary Rates
| Disablement (%) | Weekly Rate ($) |
|---|---|
| 5 | 10.90 |
| 10 | 21.81 |
| 15 | 32.71 |
| 62 |
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Ministerial Direction on Redirection of Benefit Payments
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🏥 Health & Social Welfare17 March 2015
Benefit Payments, Social Security Act 1964, Ministerial Direction, Redirection, Vulnerable Tenants
- Hon ANNE TOLLEY, Minister for Social Development
🛡️ New Rates for Entitlements Under the Veterans’ Support Act 2014
🛡️ Defence & MilitaryVeterans’ Support Act 2014, Entitlement Rates, War Disablement Pensions