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Social Security Act 2018

Administration - Commencement, stand downs, ending, and expiry and regrant - Ending of benefits

325: General rule if person’s entitlement to benefit ceases

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“When your benefit stops: How MSD decides the last day you get paid”

If you stop being allowed to get a benefit, MSD (Ministry of Social Development) will set a date for when your benefit will end. This date won’t be before the day you got your last payment, and it won’t be after the next day you would have gotten a payment. There are some special rules about this in sections 326 to 330 of the law that might change how this works in some situations.

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Part 6 Administration
Commencement, stand downs, ending, and expiry and regrant: Ending of benefits

325General rule if person’s entitlement to benefit ceases

  1. If a person’s entitlement to a benefit ceases, the benefit ends on a date that is set by MSD and is—

  2. not earlier than the pay day before the date on which the person’s entitlement ceases; and
    1. not later than the pay day after the date on which the person’s entitlement ceases.

      1. This section is subject to sections 326 to 330.

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