Part 6Administration
Payment of benefits, tax on benefits, debts and deductions: Payment of benefits
340BCredit on payment card at end of money management
This section applies to a person to whom section 236A applies (P) if—
- money management—
- is imposed on P, and has effect, when P dies; or
- was, but is no longer, imposed on P (whether or not P has died); and
- is imposed on P, and has effect, when P dies; or
- under the prescribed required manner of payment for money management for certain payments to P (see section 340A and regulations made under section 418(1)(jb)), P has a payment card to which 1 or more amounts payable to P have been credited for the purchase of goods or services; and
- the amounts on the card have not been fully spent.
An application to MSD to have MSD pay the amount standing to the credit of P on the card to, or on account of, P under section 339 may be made by,—
- if P is alive, P or a person acting on P’s behalf; or
- if P has died and has a surviving spouse or partner, P’s surviving spouse or partner; or
- if P has died and has no surviving spouse or partner but has a surviving dependent child, the person who has the care of the child; or
- if P has died and has no surviving spouse, partner, or dependent child, P’s personal representative.
An application made under this section may be made—
- orally or in writing; and
- in any form, and using any wording, that is reasonable for the purpose.
On an application made under this section, MSD may pay the amount standing to the credit of P on the card to, or on account of, P under section 339.
Notes
- Section 340B: inserted, on , by section 54 of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).