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Social Security Act 2018

Enforcement: sanctions and offences - Sanctions for breach of obligations other than young person or young parent obligations - Types of sanction

232: Sanctions for failure to comply with certain obligations under this Act

You could also call this:

“Consequences for not following Social Security Act rules”

If you don’t follow certain rules set out in the Social Security Act 2018, you might face consequences. These consequences are called sanctions. The government department called MSD (Ministry of Social Development) will give you a sanction if they think you didn’t follow the rules without a good reason. The rules you need to follow are listed in another part of the law called section 233.

There are three types of sanctions that MSD can use:

  1. They might reduce the amount of money you get from your main benefit.
  2. They might stop your main benefit for a while.
  3. They might cancel your main benefit completely.

The type of sanction you get depends on what rule you didn’t follow. There’s another part of the law, section 234, that explains which sanction you might get for different situations.

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Part 5 Enforcement: sanctions and offences
Sanctions for breach of obligations other than young person or young parent obligations: Types of sanction

232Sanctions for failure to comply with certain obligations under this Act

  1. MSD must under this section impose a sanction if MSD considers that a person has failed without good and sufficient reason to comply with 1 or more obligations under this Act that are specified in section 233.

  2. The sanction is 1 of the following (in accordance with section 234):

  3. reduction in a main benefit:
    1. suspension of a main benefit:
      1. cancellation of a main benefit.

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