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Social Security Act 2018

Assistance - Hardship assistance

96: Temporary additional support: requirements

You could also call this:

"Getting extra help when you don't have enough money for basics"

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You are entitled to temporary additional support if your chargeable income is less than your essential costs. You must also have cash assets of not more than the prescribed amount. Additionally, you need to meet any prescribed criteria and other requirements set out in regulations made under section 428.

You will not get temporary additional support for residential care services if your accommodation costs are funded under the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022. This also applies if your care is funded under the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022, except for care in your own home.

If you get temporary additional support, it will be for a set amount and period. This is also subject to clause 20 of Schedule 3, which talks about how debt or health insurance payments can affect your support.

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Part 2Assistance
Hardship assistance

96Temporary additional support: requirements

  1. A person (P) is entitled to temporary additional support if—

  2. P’s chargeable income is less than P’s essential costs; and
    1. P has cash assets of not more than the prescribed amount; and
      1. P meets any prescribed criteria and any other requirements set out in regulations made under section 428.

        1. However, temporary additional support must not be granted in respect of the cost of residential care services supplied to a person who has a psychiatric, intellectual, physical, or sensory disability if—

        2. the person’s accommodation costs are wholly or partly funded under the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022; or
          1. the person’s care (other than care in the person’s own home) is wholly or partly funded under the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022.

            1. Temporary additional support granted under subsection (1) must be granted in the prescribed amount and for the prescribed period.

            2. This section is subject to clause 20 (how commitments for temporary additional support may be affected by debt, or health or disability, insurance payment) of Schedule 3.

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            Notes
            • Section 96(2)(a): amended, on , by section 104 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 (2022 No 30).
            • Section 96(2)(b): amended, on , by section 104 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 (2022 No 30).