Direction in relation to Emergency Benefit and Benefits on Ground of Hardship : Contents

Direction in relation to Emergency Benefit and Benefits on Ground of Hardship

Unofficial consolidated version of the Direction in relation to Emergency Benefit and Benefits on Ground of Hardship
-- as at 1 July 2021

To: The Chief Executive, Department of Work and Income

Pursuant to section 5 of the Social Security Act 1964, I, Roger Morrison Sowry, Minister of Social Services, Work and Income, give the following Direction to take effect on 8 October 1998.

I revoke effective on that date all previous Ministerial Directions under that section concerning the grant of emergency benefits under that Act.

This direction is saved by clause 2(1) of Schedule 1 of the Social Security Act 2018 as if it were a direction given to MSD under section 7 of the Act.

Dated 6 October 1998

Hon. Roger Sowry
Minister of Social Services, Work and Income

Analysis

Grants of Emergency Benefits, and Grants of Benefits on the Ground of Hardship

1. Definitions

2. Hardship: general criteria

3. Hardship: full-time students

4. Hardship: full-time students: further criteria

5. Emergency benefits for people aged 16 or 17 attending social rehabilitation programmes (Revoked)

6. Emergency benefits for people aged 16 or 17 who are pregnant or sole parents (Revoked)

7. Emergency benefits for people aged 16 or 17

8. Emergency benefits for care of patients