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Social Security Act 2018

Administration - Review of entitlement to, or rate of, benefit granted

310: Certain benefits granted, or granted at rate, not taking into account certain insurance payments

You could also call this:

“Benefits can change if you have certain insurance payments”

This law talks about what happens when you get certain benefits from the government and also have insurance payments.

If you’re getting a benefit, the government might not have taken into account some insurance payments you’re receiving. These specific insurance payments are listed in separate rules.

If this happens, the government can change your benefit. They might stop it, cancel it, or change how much you get. They can do this from a date they choose.

When the law talks about benefits, it also includes special help that the government gives through specific programmes.

The government can decide to reduce the amount of your insurance payment they consider. They might do this if you had to pay some costs to get that insurance payment.

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Part 6 Administration
Review of entitlement to, or rate of, benefit granted

310Certain benefits granted, or granted at rate, not taking into account certain insurance payments

  1. This section applies if MSD is satisfied because of the review that the beneficiary has been granted a benefit, or has been granted a benefit at a rate, that does not take into account certain insurance payments specified in regulations made under section 439.

  2. MSD may, in accordance with those regulations, suspend, cancel, or vary the rate of, the benefit, from a date MSD determines.

  3. In this section, benefit includes special assistance granted under a programme approved under section 100 or 101.

  4. For the purposes of this section, the amount of an insurance payment must, to the extent MSD so determines, be reduced by the amount of any costs incurred by an applicant for a benefit or a beneficiary in obtaining receipt of that payment.

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