Social Security Act 2018

Administration - Notices and communications, services, and preferred suppliers - Goods or services, for beneficiaries or others, supplied by preferred suppliers

367: Preferred suppliers: determinations

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“Minister can choose specific suppliers for certain disability and urgent needs support”

The Minister can decide in writing which goods or services can be provided by preferred suppliers. This applies to specific types of goods or services, or groups of them. The Minister can only make these decisions for three reasons:

  1. To help pay for extra costs that come from having a disability. This is done through a disability allowance.

  2. To meet the special needs of a person through special assistance programs.

  3. To help with the urgent needs of someone receiving benefits by giving them an advance payment.

The Minister can’t make these decisions for any other reasons. This helps make sure that preferred suppliers are used only when necessary to support people who need extra help.

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Part 6 Administration
Notices and communications, services, and preferred suppliers: Goods or services, for beneficiaries or others, supplied by preferred suppliers

367Preferred suppliers: determinations

  1. The Minister may from time to time, by written direction, determine the goods or services, or classes, descriptions, or kinds of goods or services, contracts for the supply of which may be entered into under section 366.

  2. A determination under this section must be in respect of goods or services, or classes, descriptions, or kinds of goods or services, for all or any of the following (and for no other) purposes:

  3. to meet additional expenses arising from a disability by way of a disability allowance, under section 85:
    1. to meet particular needs of a person via special assistance under a programme under section 100 or 101:
      1. to satisfy the immediate needs of a beneficiary via an advance payment of a benefit under section 347.
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