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Social Security Act 2018

Assistance - Winter energy payment

75: Winter energy payment: termination on review

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"When MSD can stop your winter energy payment after checking it"

If you get a winter energy payment, MSD can stop it after reviewing it under section 304, and also looking at section 309. MSD can stop the payment if your benefit rate needs to be reduced to the rate for long-term hospital patients, as stated in section 206, even if MSD pays a higher rate. MSD can also stop the payment if continuing it does not match the purpose stated in section 70.

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Part 2Assistance
Winter energy payment

75Winter energy payment: termination on review

  1. MSD may terminate a winter energy payment if satisfied, after reviewing the payment under section 304 (see also section 309), that—

  2. the rate of the beneficiary’s qualifying benefit (under section 72(1)(a)) is required by section 206 to be reduced to the rate payable to long-term hospital patients (even if MSD pays a higher rate under section 206(2)); and
    1. continuing the payment is not consistent with the purpose stated in section 70.

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