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Social Security Act 2018

Assistance - Winter energy payment

75: Winter energy payment: termination on review

You could also call this:

“When MSD checks your winter energy payment, they can stop it if your benefit changes”

The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) can stop your winter energy payment after they review it. They might do this if two things happen:

  1. Your main benefit (the one that makes you eligible for the winter energy payment) has to be reduced to the amount paid to people in hospital for a long time. MSD might still pay you more than this, but the rules say it should be reduced.

  2. Keeping the winter energy payment going doesn’t fit with what the payment is meant to do.

MSD will look at both of these things when they review your payment. If both are true, they might decide to stop your winter energy payment.

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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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