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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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“How to apply for a benefit and what happens with your application”

You need to fill out an application form if you want to get a benefit. There are rules about how to complete the form, how you can get help with it, what happens if you don’t finish it, and when it’s considered to have been received. These rules are set out in other regulations.

If you applied for weekly compensation from ACC but didn’t get it, MSD might treat your benefit application as if you made it on a different date. This could be either when ACC decided not to give you the compensation, or when you stopped getting ACC payments, whichever is later.

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Part 6 Administration
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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