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Social Security Act 2018

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

281: Sanction for third failure: cancellation of young parent payment and incentive payments

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“Young parents might lose payments if they don't follow rules three times”

If you’re getting a young parent payment and you don’t follow your young parent obligations three times without a good reason, the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) will take action. When this happens for the third time, MSD will stop your young parent payment. They will also stop any extra incentive payments you might be getting. This rule is very important and it overrides all other rules in this law. The MSD will do this even if other parts of the law say something different.

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

281Sanction for third failure: cancellation of young parent payment and incentive payments

  1. This section applies if MSD is satisfied that a young person (P) who is receiving a young parent payment has, without good and sufficient reason, failed to comply with a young parent obligation for a third time.

  2. For P’s third failure, MSD must cancel P’s young parent payment and any incentive payments.

  3. This section overrides every other provision of this Act.

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