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Subpart 1—Guide to this Part
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| 183
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What this Part does
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Subpart 2—Factors affecting benefits
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Factors affecting benefits: pre-benefit activities
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| 184
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Regulations may prescribe pre-benefit activities
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| 185
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MSD must explain requirements
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Factors affecting benefits: insurance recovery
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| 186
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Benefit may be subject to repayment of insurance payment
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Factors reducing benefits: entitlement to overseas pensions
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| 187
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Interpretation
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| 188
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Persons affected by receipt of overseas pension
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| 189
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Benefit of person affected is reduced by amount of overseas pension
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| 190
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MSD may enter into arrangement with person affected by receipt of overseas pension
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| 191
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Treatment of certain overseas benefits, pensions, and allowances that are not overseas pensions
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Factors reducing benefits: failure to assist child support
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| 192
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MSD must reduce rates of benefits for sole parents for failure to assist child support
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| 193
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No reduction in certain cases
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| 194
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Additional reduction in certain cases
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Factors affecting eligibility for benefit: shared care of dependent child
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| 195
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Shared care of dependent child
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| 196
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Rules for assessing which parent has greater responsibility for dependent child
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Factors reducing benefits: compensation or damages
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| 197
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Effect of compensation or damages on application for benefit
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| 198
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Loss of earnings compensation under Accident Compensation Act 2001
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Factors affecting benefit: veteran’s entitlement
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| 199
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Veteran’s entitlement excludes any other benefit
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| 200
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Exceptions to rule that veteran’s entitlement excludes any other benefit
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Factors affecting benefit: personal benefit excludes benefit on behalf
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| 201
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Personal benefit of spouse or partner excludes benefit on behalf of spouse or partner
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Factors affecting benefit: maintenance claim
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| 202
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MSD may refuse or cancel benefit for failure to take reasonable steps to obtain maintenance
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Factors affecting benefit: family protection claim
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| 203
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MSD may refuse or cancel benefit if family protection claim not pursued
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Factors affecting benefit: person not ordinarily resident in New Zealand
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| 204
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MSD may refuse or cancel benefit if person not ordinarily resident in New Zealand
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Factors affecting benefit: refugee or protected person status
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| 205
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Refugee or protected person status
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Factors affecting benefit: hospitalisation
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| 206
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Hospitalisation
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| 207
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Benefit of spouse or partner increased after 13th week of hospitalisation
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Factors affecting benefit: alcohol and drug treatment
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| 208
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Beneficiary resident in institution for treatment of alcoholism or drug addiction
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Factors affecting benefit: issue of warrant for beneficiary’s arrest
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| 209
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Benefit not payable to person who is subject to warrant of arrest
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| 210
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Beneficiary and offence defined for section 209
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| 211
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MSD must give beneficiary notice of unresolved warrant
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| 212
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Requirements for unresolved warrant notice
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| 213
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Immediate suspension of benefit at request of New Zealand Police
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| 214
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Beneficiary and offence defined for section 213
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| 215
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MSD must give beneficiary notice of immediate suspension
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| 216
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Effect of non-payment or suspension of benefit
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Factors affecting benefit: custody in prison or on remand
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| 217
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Benefit not payable during custody in prison or on remand
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| 218
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Exceptions to rule that benefit not payable during custody in prison or on remand
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Factors affecting benefit: absence from New Zealand
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| 219
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General rule: benefit not payable while beneficiary absent from New Zealand
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| 220
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Special absence rule: winter energy payment
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Factors affecting benefit: additional dependent child
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| 221
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Purpose of sections 222 to 224
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| 222
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Additional dependent child must not be taken into account in certain cases
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| 223
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Extended application of additional dependent child rules
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| 224
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Limited application of additional dependent child rules
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Factors affecting benefit: voluntary unemployment or loss of employment through misconduct, etc
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| 225
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Basic rule: no work-tested benefit for 13 weeks after leaving employment or scheme or loss of employment due to misconduct
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| 226
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Persons to whom basic rule applies
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| 227
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What happens if basic rule applies
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| 228
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MSD’s options in case of misconduct
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| 229
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Interpretation
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Factors affecting benefits: non-entitlement period, stand down, or 100% suspension of benefit
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| 230
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How non-entitlement period, etc, affects supplementary benefits, and spouse or partner
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