Clause 7. Work bonus: ineligibility

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Work bonus: ineligibility

(1)

No person must be granted a work bonus in respect of the cancellation of the person's specified benefit if-

(a)

the commencement of the qualifying employment or, as the case requires, the increased hours of employment is before 15 July 2013; or

(b)

either the person or his or her spouse or partner has received a work bonus payment (including a portion of a work bonus payment under section 337 of the Act and regulation 191 of the Social Security Regulations 2018) within the period of 12 months preceding the cancellation date of the specified benefit; or

(c)

the qualifying employment is unsuitable employment, self-employment, or employment outside New Zealand; or

(d)

the specified benefit was suspended or not for the time being payable under the Act immediately before the cancellation date.

(2)

Subclause (1)(d) does not apply-

(a)

if the specified benefit was suspended or not payable because of a sanction of suspension or reduction under section 236 or 237 of the Act; or

(b)

if the specified benefit was suspended while the specified beneficiary or, as the case requires, his or her spouse or partner, was undertaking temporary employment; or

(c)

to a specified beneficiary if the specified benefit payable at a work-test couple rate was suspended or not payable because of a warrant to arrest issued in respect of the specified beneficiary's spouse or partner.