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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

Miscellaneous

68: Information gathering under Schedule 6 of Social Security Act 2018

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"The government can ask for your information to decide benefits and payments."

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The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) can ask for information from you for several reasons. You might be asked for information to check if you are eligible for a benefit or payment under this Act. The MSD can also ask for information to work out how much you can afford to pay for home-based disability support services. They can ask for information to find out about your financial situation if you owe the Crown money. The MSD can get this information by sending you a notice, which is explained in clauses 2 to 7 of Schedule 6 of the Social Security Act 2018. The MSD uses this information to do its job, which includes making sure people get the right benefits and payments. This is how the MSD gathers information to make decisions about your benefits and payments.

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Part 9Miscellaneous

68Information gathering under Schedule 6 of Social Security Act 2018

  1. MSD may, by notice given under clauses 2 to 7 of Schedule 6 of the Social Security Act 2018, obtain information for all or any of the following purposes:

  2. determining whether a person who has made a claim for, is receiving, or has received, a benefit or payment under this Act is or was entitled to receive that benefit or payment:
    1. conducting or reviewing a means assessment under this Act, or determining whether a means assessment of that kind is correct:
      1. determining, under Part 8 of this Act, the amount that a person is required to pay towards the cost of the home-based disability support services supplied to that person, and whether a person who has been so assessed is entitled to that assessment:
        1. ascertaining the financial circumstances or whereabouts of a person who is indebted to the Crown under this Act:
          1. discharging MSD’s functions under, or under any regulations in force under, this Act.

            1. This section is by way of explanation only.