Clause 7. Ineligibility

7

Ineligibility

(1)

A person is ineligible for CC payments if he or she-

(a)

is a person receiving residential care services funded wholly or partly under the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000; or

(b)

is a resident assessed as requiring care within the meaning of section 5 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018; or

(c)

is a person, or is the spouse or partner of a person, to whom a special benefit continues to be payable under section 23 of the Social Security (Working for Families) Amendment Act 2004 (as saved by clause 19 of Schedule 1 of the Act); or

(d)

is-

(i)

aged 15 or less; or

(ii)

the dependent child of a person; or

(iii)

a child for whom payments are being made under section 363 of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989; or

(e)

has cash assets (including the cash assets of his or her spouse or partner (if any)) of more than,-

(i)

in the case of a single person, the amount in clause 1 of Schedule 5 of the Act; or

(ii)

in the case of a person who is in a relationship or is a sole parent, the amount in clause 2 of that schedule; or

(f)

is a person whose weekly income (including the weekly income of his or her spouse or partner if any) is more than the appropriate amount set out in Part 2 of Schedule 5 of the Act.

(2)

For the purposes of subclause (1)(f), a person's weekly income includes weekly income calculated under clause 13 and Part 3A of Schedule 3 of the Act.