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Social Security Act 2018

Enforcement: sanctions and offences - Sanctions for breach of young person or young parent obligations - Sanctions: young person obligations

275: Sanctions for failure by young person required to receive youth services to comply with obligations: money management

You could also call this:

“Young people with managed benefits can lose money if they don't follow youth services rules”

If you are a young person who has to receive youth services and your benefit is managed for you, this law applies to you. It says that if you don’t follow certain rules without a good reason, you can get in trouble.

The rules you need to follow include things like going to education or training, taking part in activities that help you get ready for work, and doing what your plan says you should do. If you’re supposed to be looking for work, you also need to do that.

If you don’t follow these rules, the government will treat it the same as if you didn’t follow the main rules for youth services. This means you might lose some of your benefit money as a punishment.

The government department called MSD (which stands for Ministry of Social Development) decides if you’ve broken the rules. If they think you have, they have to give you a punishment, just like they would if you broke the main youth services rules.

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

275Sanctions for failure by young person required to receive youth services to comply with obligations: money management

  1. This section applies to a young person—

  2. who has been required to receive youth services under section 165(2) or 168(2); and
    1. whose benefit is subject to money management under section 344; and
      1. who MSD is satisfied has, without good and sufficient reason, failed to comply with an obligation that applies to the young person under section 165(7)(a) or 168(6)(a), and that is—
        1. an obligation in section 166(2)(b) and (d) to (g); or
          1. the work test (in the case of a work-tested beneficiary); or
            1. a work-preparation obligation under section 124 or 125 (in the case of a beneficiary who is required to comply with section 124).

            2. MSD must treat the failure as if it were a failure to comply with an obligation under section 166, and sections 270 and 271 apply (and require MSD to impose sanctions for the failure) accordingly.

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