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Social Security Act 2018

Factors affecting benefits - Factors affecting benefits - Factors affecting benefit: alcohol and drug treatment

208: Beneficiary resident in institution for treatment of alcoholism or drug addiction

You could also call this:

“Rules for people getting benefits while in addiction treatment”

If you receive a benefit and you are staying in a place that treats people for alcohol or drug addiction, this law applies to you. The amount of money you get from your benefit while you’re staying there will be decided by MSD (Ministry of Social Development). They will look at your personal money situation to work out how much you should get.

The places we’re talking about here are special centres that help people with substance addiction. These are set up under a law called the Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017. We also mean any other places that do the same kind of work as these centres. But we don’t mean places that are for people with mental health problems.

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Factors affecting benefits: Factors affecting benefit: alcohol and drug treatment

208Beneficiary resident in institution for treatment of alcoholism or drug addiction

  1. This section applies if a person (P) is—

  2. a beneficiary; and
    1. a resident of an institution for the treatment of alcoholism or drug addiction.

      1. The rate of any benefit payable to P while a resident of the institution is determined by MSD after taking into account P’s personal financial circumstances.

      2. In subsection (1), institution for the treatment of alcoholism or drug addiction means a treatment centre under the Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017 (the 2017 Act) (not being a psychiatric security institution within the meaning of the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992) or any institution that fulfils a similar purpose to a treatment centre under the 2017 Act.

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