Guaranteed Childcare Assistance Payment Programme

Pursuant to section 124(1)(d) of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister for Social Development establishes and approves the following welfare programme for special assistance.

This welfare programme is saved by clause 21 of Schedule 1 of the Social Security Act 2018 as if it were a special assistance programme approved and established under section 101 of the Act.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of August 2012.

HON PAULA BENNETT, Minister for Social Development.

Contents

1. Title

2. Commencement

3. Purpose

4. Interpretation

5. Application of the Act

6. Guaranteed childcare assistance payment: Entitlement

7. GCAP: Discretionary grants

8. GCAP not payable with other assistance

9. GCAP: Rates

10. Commencement of GCAP

11. Payment during absences of eligible child

12. Payment between end of academic year and start of next

13. Notification of absences of eligible child

14. Ending and continuation of GCAP in certain circumstances

15. GCAP payments usually payable to provider

16. Overpayments recoverable

17. Consequential revocations

18. Transitional provisions

Explanatory Note

List of amendments

Gazette notice: Number 5160, dated 16 August 2012