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Social Security Act 2018

Obligations - Beneficiaries’ obligations - Specific obligations: social obligations of young person granted young parent payment

164: Obligations of young person granted young parent payment

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“Young parents receiving payments must follow rules about parenting and childcare”

If you receive a young parent payment, you need to do some important things. You must take part in a parenting education programme when the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) asks you to. You need to sign up each of your children with a doctor or health care provider. For your children under 5 years old, you must make sure they get all their important health checks. These checks used to be called ‘Well Child’ checks, but the name might have changed. You also need to make sure your children under 5 go to an approved early childhood education programme or childcare when you are studying, training, or working. If you don’t do these things without a good reason, you might lose some of your payment. The rules about losing your payment are explained in another part of this law.

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Part 3 Obligations
Beneficiaries’ obligations: Specific obligations: social obligations of young person granted young parent payment

164Obligations of young person granted young parent payment

  1. A young person who has been granted a young parent payment must also do the following things:

  2. as required by MSD, participate to MSD’s satisfaction in a parenting education programme approved by MSD for the purpose:
    1. enrol each dependent child with a primary health care provider (for example, a primary health organisation, or a prescribed health practitioner who is a provider of primary health care):
      1. take all reasonable steps to ensure that each dependent child under the age of 5 years is up to date with core checks under—
        1. the programme that immediately before 15 July 2013 was known as Well Child; or
          1. any similar programme established in its place:
          2. ensure that each dependent child under the age of 5 years attends an approved early childhood education programme or other suitable childcare while the young person is in education, training, work-based learning, or part-time work.

            1. A failure without good and sufficient reason to comply with obligations under this section is subject to sanctions, as provided in Part 5.

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