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Social Security Act 2018

Factors affecting benefits - Factors affecting benefits - Factors reducing benefits: failure to assist child support

192: MSD must reduce rates of benefits for sole parents for failure to assist child support

You could also call this:

“Old rule about lowering solo parents' benefits for not helping with child support is gone”

This part of the law used to say that the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) had to lower the amount of money given to solo parents if they didn’t help with child support. However, this rule doesn’t exist anymore. It was removed on 1 April 2020. This means that now, solo parents’ benefits won’t be reduced for this reason.

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Factors affecting benefits: Factors reducing benefits: failure to assist child support

192MSD must reduce rates of benefits for sole parents for failure to assist child support (Repealed)

    Notes
    • Section 192: repealed, on , by section 6(a) of the Social Assistance Legislation (Budget 2019 Welfare Package) Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 23).