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Social Security Act 2018

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

190: MSD may enter into arrangement with person affected by receipt of overseas pension

You could also call this:

“MSD can make a deal with you if you get a pension from another country”

If you receive a pension from another country, the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) can make a special arrangement with you. This arrangement allows MSD to pay you the full rate of your New Zealand benefit. In return, you agree to let MSD receive the money from your overseas pension. The rules for this arrangement are set out in section 434 of the Social Security Act 2018.

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

190MSD may enter into arrangement with person affected by receipt of overseas pension

  1. MSD may, in accordance with regulations made under section 434, enter into an arrangement with a person affected by the receipt of an overseas pension (P) to pay P the rate of a benefit or benefits under the NZ benefits legislation in consideration of MSD receiving an amount that is equivalent to the amount of the overseas pension in question.

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