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Social Security Act 2018

Administration - Notices and communications, services, and preferred suppliers - Young people services

365: Services to encourage young people to move to and remain in education, training, and employment

You could also call this:

“Help for young people to stay in school or find work instead of getting money from the government”

The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) can help young people to stay in or move into education, training, or jobs instead of getting financial help from the government. They can do this in two ways. First, they can provide services directly to young people. Second, they can hire other organisations to provide these services for them.

If you’re still in school or training when you turn 18, MSD might keep helping you for a bit longer. If your course ends in December or is a high school course, they can help you until the end of March the following year. For any other kind of course, they can help you until the day your course finishes.

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Part 6 Administration
Notices and communications, services, and preferred suppliers: Young people services

365Services to encourage young people to move to and remain in education, training, and employment

  1. MSD may do either or both of the following things:

  2. provide services to encourage and help young people to move into or remain in education, training, and employment, rather than receiving financial support under this Act:
    1. enter (under section 373) into contracts with service providers to provide services of that kind on MSD’s behalf.

      1. A young person who, on the date the young person turns 18 years old is, in MSD’s opinion, continuing in a course of education or training may continue to be provided the services of the kind referred to in subsection (1)(a) until—

      2. the close of the following 31 March, if the course is one of secondary instruction or one that ends in December; or
        1. the close of the day on which the course ends, if the course is one of any other kind.

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