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Social Security Act 2018

Administration - Payment of benefits, tax on benefits, debts and deductions - Payment of benefits

348: Requirement for beneficiary, spouse or partner, or both, to undertake budgeting activity

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“You might need to learn about budgeting if you want your benefit money early”

If you ask for an early payment of your benefit, the government might ask you to do a budgeting activity. This activity helps you learn how to manage your money better. The government can ask you, your partner, or both of you to do this activity. They will decide when to ask for this based on rules they have made. The activity you need to do will also be set out in these rules. You need to complete the activity properly for it to count.

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Part 6 Administration
Payment of benefits, tax on benefits, debts and deductions: Payment of benefits

348Requirement for beneficiary, spouse or partner, or both, to undertake budgeting activity

  1. This section applies to a beneficiary who has applied for an advance payment under section 347 of a benefit.

  2. MSD may, in circumstances prescribed by regulations made under section 447, require the beneficiary, the beneficiary’s spouse or partner, or both, to undertake to MSD’s satisfaction a budgeting activity of a kind specified in regulations made under section 447.

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