Social Security Act 2018

Administration - Application, inquiry, and grant - Application

297: Application for benefit: making of, help with, lapse, and deemed receipt

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When you apply for a benefit, your application must be completed. You can get help to fill it out. The application can also lapse, which means it is no longer valid. When your application is received, it is used to decide when your benefit starts and if you have a stand-down period, in accordance with regulations made under section 438. You make your application and it is dealt with under rules made by the government. If you have already been paid ACC weekly compensation, but your claim fails, the Ministry of Social Development can treat your application as if it was made on a different date, as stated in section 312.

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Part 6Administration
Application, inquiry, and grant: Application

297Application for benefit: making of, help with, lapse, and deemed receipt

  1. An application for a benefit must be completed, may be assisted, may lapse, and is taken to have been received for benefit commencement and stand-down purposes, in accordance with regulations made under section 438.

  2. This section does not prevent MSD under section 312 (if applicant paid, but claim fails for, ACC weekly compensation) treating an application for a benefit as having been made at the later of the dates specified in section 312(2)(a) and (b).

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