Schedule: Consequential amendments

Direction in relation to Special Benefit (given on 10 February 1999) [New Zealand Gazette, 16 December 1999, page 4599.]

Clause 2.1

In clause 2 1, definition of chargeable income, paragraph (f)(iii), after "of the Act", insert "under the Work Bonus Programme,".

Special Needs Grants Programme (as established and approved on 18 December 1998) [New Zealand Gazette, 28 January 1999, page 202.]

Clause 7.3

In clause 7.3, after "Seasonal Work Assistance Programme", insert "or the Work Bonus Programme".

Transition to Work Grant Programme (as established and approved on 23 January 2007) [New Zealand Gazette, 1 February 2007, page 215.]

New clause 9(1A)

In clause 9, after subclause (1), insert:

"(1A) Subclause (1)(c) is subject to clause 10(3)."

New clause 10(3)

In clause 10, after subclause (2), insert:

"(3)

If the applicant is receiving work bonus payments under the Work Bonus Programme established and approved under section 124(1)(d) of the Act in respect of the cancellation or termination of a working age benefit, any grant under this programme for bridging finance under clause 9(1)(c) is affected as follows:

"(a)

the grant is not payable if the total amount of the work bonus payments in the first 2 weeks following the date of the last payment of the working-age benefit is equal to or more than $500:

"(b)

if paragraph (a) does not apply, each dollar of the amount of the grant payable in respect of a week is reduced by each whole dollar amount of the work bonus payment payable in that week."