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Social Security Act 2018

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

261C: How person recomplies after failure that resulted in report job search being imposed and taking effect

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"What to do if you failed to meet a rule and got a report job search penalty"

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You need to follow some rules to recomply after failing to meet an obligation. You failed to meet an obligation and a report job search was imposed on you. This took effect and now you want to recomply. You recomply if you meet the report job search requirements that apply to you under section 236E(4). However, there is an exception to this rule. The exception applies if the Ministry of Social Development has reduced your main benefit to zero under section 236F, but has not cancelled it under section 233A. In this case, you recomply if you fix your failure under section 261. This is how you can recomply after failing to meet an obligation and having a report job search imposed on you. You must follow these rules to recomply.

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

261CHow person recomplies after failure that resulted in report job search being imposed and taking effect

  1. This section sets out how a person (P) recomplies after a failure—

  2. to comply with an obligation; and
    1. that resulted in report job search being imposed on P and taking effect.

      1. P recomplies if P meets the requirements of report job search that apply to P under section 236E(4).

      2. However, subsection (4) applies instead of subsection (2) if MSD has—

      3. reduced the rate of P’s main benefit to zero under section 236F; but
        1. not yet cancelled P’s main benefit under section 233A.

          1. P recomplies if P remedies P’s failure under section 261.

          Notes
          • Section 261C: inserted, on , by section 31 of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).