Social Security Act 2018

Obligations - Beneficiaries’ obligations - Specific obligations: young person aged 18 or 19 years who is receiving jobseeker support and who is at significant risk of long-term welfare dependency

165: Young person aged 18 or 19 years who is receiving jobseeker support in young person’s own right and who is at significant risk of long-term welfare dependency

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“Young people getting jobseeker support might need special help”

If you are 18 or 19 years old and don’t have any children, but you are getting jobseeker support, this law might affect you. The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) can decide if they think you might need help from the government for a long time. If they do, they might ask you to get special help called ‘youth services’.

Before MSD makes you get youth services, they will talk to you about why they think you might need help for a long time and why they want you to get youth services. MSD will think about if they can actually give you these services where you live.

If you’re 19 when MSD tells you to get youth services, you might have to keep getting them even after you turn 20. This could be for 6 months, or until you finish school or training if that’s what you’re doing.

When you get youth services, you have to do some extra things. You might have to go to training, learn how to manage your money, or do other activities. You might also get some rewards for doing well.

MSD can check if you still need youth services and can stop them if they think you don’t need them anymore.

The government decides who might need help for a long time by looking at different things about you. They’re worried about people who might not be able to get a full-time job for a long time and might need money from the government to live.

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Part 3 Obligations
Beneficiaries’ obligations: Specific obligations: young person aged 18 or 19 years who is receiving jobseeker support and who is at significant risk of long-term welfare dependency

165Young person aged 18 or 19 years who is receiving jobseeker support in young person’s own right and who is at significant risk of long-term welfare dependency

  1. This section applies to a young person (P) aged 18 or 19 years without dependent children who is receiving jobseeker support under sections 20 to 24 in the young person’s own right.

  2. If MSD determines that P is at significant risk of long-term welfare dependency (as that risk is defined in subsection (9)), MSD may require P to receive services of a kind referred to in section 373(1)(a) (youth services).

  3. In exercising the discretion under subsection (2), MSD may consider factors that affect MSD’s ability to provide the young person with youth services (for example, funding and capacity to provide the services in the young person’s area).

  4. However, before requiring the young person to receive youth services, MSD must take reasonable steps to consult the young person about—

  5. the young person’s risk of long-term welfare dependency (as that risk is defined in subsection (9)); and
    1. the proposal to require the young person to receive youth services.
      1. A requirement under subsection (2) that is placed on a young person who is aged 19 years at the time the requirement is made continues—

      2. until the close of the day that is 6 months after the date on which the requirement was placed on the young person, even if the young person turns 20 during that 6-month period; or
        1. in the case of a young person who, on the day on which he or she turns 20, is continuing in a course of education, training, or work-based learning, until,—
          1. if the course is a course of secondary instruction or if the course ends in December, the close of the following 31 March:
            1. in any other case, the close of the day on which the course ends.
            2. If paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (5) both apply to the young person, the requirement continues until the later of the 2 dates that apply under those paragraphs.

            3. The following apply to a young person who is required to receive youth services under subsection (2) as if the person’s jobseeker support, or the portion of the jobseeker support or the specified beneficiary’s benefit payable to the young person under section 337, were a youth payment:

            4. the obligations in section 162(1)(b) to (i) in addition to the young person’s work-test obligations or obligations under sections 121 to 125:
              1. sections 55 and 289 as if the appropriate incentive payments were those set out in clauses 8 and 9 in subpart 3 of Part 6 of Schedule 4:
                1. section 288:
                  1. sections 341 and 378:
                    1. regulations 4 and 5 and Part 2 of the Social Security (Criteria for Incentive Payments and Money Management) Regulations 2012 (as saved by clauses 12 and 41(3) of Schedule 1), or regulations made under section 418(1)(c), (d), (k), and (l).
                      1. MSD may from time to time review a requirement placed on a young person under subsection (2) and may confirm or revoke it.

                      2. In this section, risk of long-term welfare dependency, in relation to a person, means the risk, determined using risk factors set by the Minister for the purposes of this section and section 168 by direction under section 7, that the person will, for an indefinite period, not be able to obtain full-time employment and will be likely to remain wholly or largely dependent for the person’s financial support on all or part of a main benefit under this Act.