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Social Security Act 2018

Assistance - Special assistance

101: Approved special assistance programmes

You could also call this:

“Special help programmes created by the Minister”

The Minister can create special welfare programmes to give extra help to people. These programmes are written down and approved by the Minister.

When the Minister creates a welfare programme, it must be run by MSD (the Ministry of Social Development). The programme can say that some parts of the Social Security Act apply to it, just like they would for a regular benefit.

The Minister can decide who can get this special help. They might say it’s for certain groups of people.

There are some rules about how these programmes work if you have insurance or owe money. These rules are explained in another part of the law.

When the Minister creates one of these programmes, they have to follow certain steps to make it official. This includes publishing information about the programme in a specific way.

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Part 2 Assistance
Special assistance

101Approved special assistance programmes

  1. The Minister may from time to time, by written notice, approve and establish welfare programmes for the purpose of granting special assistance.

  2. A welfare programme approved and established by the Minister under subsection (1)—

  3. must be administered by MSD; and
    1. may provide for any specified provision of this Act to apply to the programme and to any specified class or classes of person as if the special assistance authorised by the programme were a benefit under this Act.

      1. This section is subject to clause 21 (how costs, etc, for approved programme of special assistance may be affected by debt, or health or disability, insurance payment) of Schedule 3.

      2. A notice under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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      Notes
      • Section 101(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).