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Social Security Act 2018

Factors affecting benefits - Factors affecting benefits - Factors affecting benefits: insurance recovery

186: Benefit may be subject to repayment of insurance payment

You could also call this:

“You might need to pay back some insurance money before getting a benefit”

MSD (Ministry of Social Development) can make rules about giving you a benefit or deciding how much you get. These rules can say that you might need to pay back some or all of an insurance payment you received.

The types of insurance payments that you might need to pay back are listed in special rules called regulations. These regulations are made under section 433 of the law.

If you get one of these insurance payments, MSD might say you need to pay some or all of it back to them before they give you a benefit or decide how much benefit you can get.

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Part 4 Factors affecting benefits
Factors affecting benefits: Factors affecting benefits: insurance recovery

186Benefit may be subject to repayment of insurance payment

  1. MSD may, in accordance with regulations made under section 433, make the grant of a benefit or the rate of the benefit subject to repayment to MSD of all or part of an insurance payment of a kind or description, or that falls within a class or definition, prescribed by those regulations.

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