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Social Security Act 2018

Administration - Commencement, stand downs, ending, and expiry and regrant - Restoration of entitlement after suspension, reduction, cancellation, or non-entitlement

323: Effect of employment on non-entitlement period

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“Getting a job can help you get your benefit back sooner”

If you can’t get a main benefit for 13 weeks because of certain rules, there’s a way to change that. If you get a job for at least 6 weeks, and MSD (Ministry of Social Development) approves it, you won’t have to wait for the rest of the 13 weeks. This means you might be able to get your benefit again sooner. Remember, MSD needs to agree that your job counts for this rule.

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Part 6 Administration
Commencement, stand downs, ending, and expiry and regrant: Restoration of entitlement after suspension, reduction, cancellation, or non-entitlement

323Effect of employment on non-entitlement period

  1. This section applies to a person who is not entitled to (or to a part of) a main benefit under this Act for 13 weeks because of the operation of section 225 or 238.

  2. If a person to whom this section applies completes an approved period of employment, the remainder of the 13-week period lapses.

  3. Approved period of employment, in subsection (2), means a period of employment—

  4. of not less than 6 weeks; and
    1. approved by MSD for the purposes of this section.

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