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Social Security Act 2018

Assistance - Jobseeker support

26: Jobseeker support: ineligibility

You could also call this:

“When you can't get jobseeker support”

You can’t get jobseeker support if you are a full-time student, unless you meet special conditions. You also can’t get it if you’re unemployed because you or other members of your union at your workplace are on strike. Lastly, you won’t be eligible if the Ministry of Social Development thinks you became unemployed or took leave from your job to do employment-related training.

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Part 2 Assistance
Jobseeker support

26Jobseeker support: ineligibility

  1. A person (P) is not entitled to, or eligible to be granted, jobseeker support if—

  2. P is a full-time student (unless P is eligible under section 25); or
    1. P is unemployed because of P’s participation, or participation by fellow members of the same union at the same place of employment, in a strike; or
      1. MSD reasonably believes that P became unemployed or took leave with or without pay from P’s employment for the purpose of undertaking employment-related training.

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