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Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 13).

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New Zealand
Employment policy, promotion of employment and employment services
2013-04-16
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PART 1 - SUBSTANTIVE AMENDMENTS
The substantive amendments in this Part are for purposes that include¿
(a) introducing new benefit categories (sole parent support, supported living payment, and jobseeker support); and
(b) providing for new obligations (obligations to work with contracted service providers, social obligations of certain beneficiaries with dependent children, and, for work-tested beneficiaries, new work test obligations that are drug test obligations); and
(c) providing for, or adjusting provisions on, other matters (including the effect on a benefit of a warrant to arrest a beneficiary, when beneficiaries can be paid a benefit while overseas, backdating benefits, benefit end dates, and expiry and re-grant of specified benefits); and
(d) making clearer the principal Act's structure (see section 62 and Part 1 of Schedule 2), by reorganising headings, and by relocating section 53A (which gives a right of appeal to a medical board on medical grounds against specified decisions).

PART 1B - SOLE PARENT SUPPORT
New Part 1B inserted.

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