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Social Security Act 2018

Factors affecting benefits - Factors affecting benefits - Factors reducing benefits: entitlement to overseas pensions

188: Persons affected by receipt of overseas pension

You could also call this:

“How overseas pensions can change your New Zealand benefits”

This law talks about how overseas pensions can affect your New Zealand benefits. You might be affected if you qualify for New Zealand benefits and any of these things are true:

You can get or are getting an overseas pension for yourself, your partner, or someone who depends on you.

Your partner can get or is getting an overseas pension.

Someone who depends on you can get or is getting an overseas pension.

If any of these apply to you, it might change how much you get from your New Zealand benefits.

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Part 4 Factors affecting benefits
Factors affecting benefits: Factors reducing benefits: entitlement to overseas pensions

188Persons affected by receipt of overseas pension

  1. A person (P) is a person affected by the receipt of an overseas pension if P is a person who is qualified to receive a benefit under the NZ benefits legislation and—

  2. P is entitled to receive or receives an overseas pension in respect of any of the following persons:
    1. P:
      1. P’s spouse or partner:
        1. any dependant of P; or
        2. P’s spouse or partner is entitled to receive or receives an overseas pension; or
          1. any of P’s dependants is entitled to receive or receives an overseas pension.

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