Emergency Maintenance Allowance : Contents
Failure to attend interviews or make contact about social obligations
A client, when required, must:
- attend and participate in interviews with the Ministry of Social Development to discuss compliance with their social obligations and
- report on compliance with specific social obligations
If during the 3 steps of engagement and support, the client does not attend and participate in interviews with the Ministry to discuss compliance with social obligations or report on compliance with specific social obligations you should move to the next steps of engagement and support.
For more information on the 3 step engagement process see:
- Failure to comply following regular engagement and support process
- Good and sufficient reasons for failing to comply with a social obligation
- Obligations failures
- Social obligations - Actively engaging with clients [no link find out why] procedures
Legislation
- Interviews and reporting section 135 Social Security Act 2018
