Social Security Act 2018

Enforcement: sanctions and offences - Sanctions for breach of young person or young parent obligations - Sanctions: young parent obligations

280A: Cancellation of young parent payment and incentive payments for continuing failure to comply

You could also call this:

"Your young parent payment can stop if you don't follow the rules."

If you get a young parent payment and you do not do what you are supposed to do, the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) might stop your payment. This can happen if MSD has already given you a sanction for not doing what you were supposed to do, and you still do not do it within 13 weeks. You must follow the rules again to get your payment back. If your payment is stopped, MSD will also stop some other benefits you might be getting, such as an accommodation supplement or a disability allowance, but you can apply for these again.

If you want to get your young parent payment again, you will have to apply for it and show that you are eligible. To get incentive payments again, you will have to meet the criteria for these payments, which are set out in regulations made under the Social Security Act, as described in section 62 and section 418(1)(d). You can find more information about sanctions in section 280 and about some exceptions in section 320.

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Part 5Enforcement: sanctions and offences
Sanctions for breach of young person or young parent obligations: Sanctions: young parent obligations

280ACancellation of young parent payment and incentive payments for continuing failure to comply

  1. MSD must cancel a young person’s (P’s) young parent payment and incentive payments if—

  2. MSD has, under section 280, imposed a sanction described in section 280(2) on P; and
    1. P fails to recomply, within 13 weeks after the sanction takes effect, with each obligation—
      1. for which the sanction was imposed for a failure to comply with; and
        1. that P has not ceased to have; and
        2. section 320 does not apply to P.
          1. On cancellation under this section of P’s young parent payment,—

          2. MSD must also cancel the following benefits if P is receiving them:
            1. accommodation supplement:
              1. temporary additional support:
                1. disability allowance (but not child disability allowance); but
                2. that cancellation of those benefits does not, if P reapplies for all or any of them, affect or limit P’s entitlement to all or any of them.
                  1. On cancellation under this section of P’s young parent payment, to be again entitled to young parent payment under this Act, P must apply for young parent payment and establish that P is eligible for young parent payment.

                  2. If P is again entitled to young parent payment under this Act, to be entitled again to incentive payments, P must satisfy the criteria for incentive payments (as those criteria are prescribed for the purposes of section 62 by regulations made under section 418(1)(d)).

                  Notes
                  • Section 280A: inserted, on , by section 39 of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).