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Social Rehabilitation Assistance Programme : Contents

List of amendments

Unofficial consolidated version of the Social Rehabilitation Assistance Programme
-- as at 26 November 2018

Below is a list of amendments to the programme, starting with the most recent.

Source

Notes

Instrument amending Ministerial Directions and Welfare Programmes (No 2) 2018

Gazette notice:
Number 5345, dated 26 October 2018

Effective date: 26 November 2018

This instrument, which is made under sections 7 and 101 of the Social Security Act 2018 (the Act) and regulations 90 and 211 of the Social Security Regulations 2018 and comes into force on 26 November 2018, amends the Ministerial directions and welfare programmes under the Social Security Act 1964 (and saved by Schedule 1 of the Act) that are listed in the Schedule of this instrument in the manner set out in that Schedule. The amendments update references to provisions of the Social Security Act 1964 to equivalent provisions of the Act or the Social Security Regulations 2018 and for changes of language in the Act. It also revokes a spent direction and welfare programme.

Instrument amending ministerial directions and welfare programmes (No. 2) 2006

Gazette notice:
Number 3762, dated 8 June 2006

Effective date: 9 June 2006

This instrument, which comes into effect on the day after its publication in the New Zealand Gazette, amends a number of Ministerial directions and welfare programmes under the Social Security Act 1964 to treat people in civil unions in the same way as people in marriages.

Instrument amending Ministerial directions and welfare programmes 2006

Gazette notice:
Number 2154, dated 6 April 2006

Effective date: 1 April 2006

This instrument, which comes into effect on 1 April 2006, amends a number of Ministerial directions and welfare programmes under the Social Security Act 1964.

Schedule 1 adjusts certain rates, standard costs and limits to take into account a 3.16% increase in the Consumers Price Index.

Schedule 2 lists amendments:

  • to the Assistance to Live Organ Donors Programme and the Social Rehabilitation Assistance Programme identifying the introduction of temporary additional support;
  • to the Home Help Programme to align the hourly rate with a 7.89% increase in the adult minimum wage;
  • to the Special Transfer Allowance Programme 2000 to adjust average regional rents to reflect movements in rentals;
  • to update various cross-references to legislation.

Instrument Amending Ministerial Directions and Welfare Programmes 2005

Gazette notice:
Number 1777, dated 24 March 2005

Effective date: 1 April 2005

This instrument, which takes effect on 1 April 2005, amends various Ministerial directions and welfare programmes to:

  • make various changes relating to the Working for Families package, principally to replace reference to the invalid's benefit in cash assets and income limits with reference to the new Schedule 31 of the Social Security Act 1964 which comes into force on that date
  • adjust certain rates to take into account a 2.70% increase in the Consumers Price Index
  • adjust average regional rents in the Special Transfer Allowance Programme 2000 to reflect movements in rentals
  • make minor definitional changes to clarify the application of the Recoverable Assistance Programme.