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Social Security Act 2018

Administration - Notices and communications, services, and preferred suppliers - Administration services provided by contracted service providers

378: MSD may assign contracted service provider to young person

You could also call this:

“MSD can choose someone to help young people with money and support”

When you need financial help, the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) might assign a contracted service provider to help you. This can happen in a few different situations:

If you contact MSD for financial assistance, and they think a youth support payment might be the best option for you, they can assign a provider to you.

If you’re already getting a youth support payment, MSD can assign a provider to you at any time.

If you’re married to or living with someone who gets a benefit, and you have certain responsibilities because of your age or if you have a child, MSD can also assign a provider to you.

The service provider is there to help you with the support you need. This is part of how MSD manages youth support payments and helps young people who are connected to the benefit system.

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Part 6 Administration
Notices and communications, services, and preferred suppliers: Administration services provided by contracted service providers

378MSD may assign contracted service provider to young person

  1. MSD may assign a contracted service provider to a young person—

  2. at a time—
    1. after the young person has contacted MSD for financial assistance; and
      1. at which MSD considers the most appropriate financial assistance for the young person is likely to be a youth support payment; or
      2. at the time, or at a time after, the youth support payment is payable to the young person; or
        1. at a time when the young person is the spouse or partner of a specified beneficiary, or of a beneficiary, and has obligations under—
          1. section 166 (young person aged 16 or 17 years with no dependent child and who is spouse or partner of specified beneficiary); or
            1. section 167 (young person aged 16 to 19 years with dependent child and who is spouse or partner of beneficiary).

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