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Social Security Act 2018

Assistance - Winter energy payment

73: Winter energy payment: election not to receive

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“You can choose not to receive the winter energy payment”

You can choose not to get the winter energy payment if you’re entitled to it. If you’re in a relationship and would get the payment at a rate for couples, both you and your partner need to agree not to get it. You need to tell the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) that you don’t want the payment. You can change your mind later if you want. MSD will tell you how to say no to the payment or how to start getting it again. Once you say no, you won’t get any more payments unless you tell MSD you want to start getting them again.

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Part 2 Assistance
Winter energy payment

73Winter energy payment: election not to receive

  1. A person entitled to a winter energy payment may make an election not to receive the payment.

  2. If the payment would be payable at a rate prescribed in respect of a person who is in a relationship, MSD must be satisfied that the election has been made by both spouses or partners.

  3. The election must be made, and may be revoked, in a form and manner approved by MSD.

  4. Unless it is revoked, the election stops the person from being entitled to the payment for any days after the election is made.

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