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Social Security Act 2018

Obligations - Beneficiaries’ obligations - Deferral of work-test obligations

156: Effect of deferral of work-test obligations

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“What happens when you get a break from job-hunting tasks”

If your work-test obligations are put on hold, you don’t have to do them for a while. The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) will tell you how long this break lasts. During this time, you’re treated like someone who doesn’t have these obligations at all.

If you get a break from your work-test obligations because of special rules, you need to tell MSD right away if anything changes in your life that might affect your right to have this break.

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Part 3 Obligations
Beneficiaries’ obligations: Deferral of work-test obligations

156Effect of deferral of work-test obligations

  1. A person’s work-test obligations are deferred for the period specified in MSD’s notice of deferral and sections 106 and 138 to 146 apply to that person as if he or she were not a person subject to work-test obligations.

  2. A person whose work-test obligations are deferred in accordance with regulations made under section 431 must notify MSD as soon as practicable of any change in the person's circumstances that may affect the person’s entitlement to the deferral.

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