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Social Security Act 2018

Obligations - Beneficiaries’ obligations - Specific obligations: work ability assessment

116: Persons subject to work ability assessment

You could also call this:

“Work ability checks for some benefit receivers”

If you get certain benefits from MSD (Ministry of Social Development), you might need to have a work ability assessment. This applies to you if you get jobseeker support, sole parent support, a supported living payment, or an emergency benefit. It also applies if you’re married to or living with someone who gets these benefits. MSD can ask you to do this assessment, and you need to follow their instructions. There’s a special rule for some people on supported living payments, which is explained in another part of the law.

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Part 3 Obligations
Beneficiaries’ obligations: Specific obligations: work ability assessment

116Persons subject to work ability assessment

  1. The following persons must comply with a requirement under section 118 by MSD that they undergo a work ability assessment:

  2. a person who receives any of the following benefits: jobseeker support, sole parent support, a supported living payment (except as provided in section 117), or an emergency benefit; or
    1. the spouse or partner of a person listed in paragraph (a).

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