Social Security Act 2018
2018 No 32
| Subpart 4—Offences | ||
| 290 | Offences: false statements, misleading, or attempting to mislead, to receive or continue to receive benefits | 154 |
| 291 | Offences: spouse or partner knowingly benefiting from excess amount obtained by beneficiary’s fraud | 155 |
| 292 | Offence of demanding or accepting fee or other consideration in relation to grant of benefit | 156 |
| 293 | Offence of demanding or accepting acknowledgement or undertaking | 156 |
| 294 | General penalty for offences | 157 |
| 295 | Time for filing charging document | 157 |
| Part 6 Administration |
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| Subpart 1—Guide to this Part | ||
| 296 | What this Part does | 161 |
| Subpart 2—Application, inquiry, and grant | ||
| Application | ||
| 297 | Application for benefit: making of, help with, lapse, and deemed receipt | 162 |
| Inquiry | ||
| 298 | MSD must inquire into claim for benefit | 162 |
| 299 | Exception during epidemic | 162 |
| 300 | Information gathering, disclosure, and matching | 163 |
| Grant | ||
| 301 | MSD decides whether to grant benefit | 163 |
| 302 | Immediate provisional grant, and later backdating of other benefit | 163 |
| 303 | After death of applicant | 164 |
| Subpart 3—Review of entitlement to, or rate of, benefit granted | ||
| 304 | Review of entitlement and rate payable | 164 |
| 305 | Information for review | 164 |
| 306 | No entitlement, or entitlement only at different rate | 165 |
| 307 | Benefit on another eligibility ground more appropriate | 165 |
| 308 | Another benefit more appropriate | 165 |
| 309 | Termination of winter energy payment | 165 |
| 310 | Certain benefits granted, or granted at rate, not taking into account certain insurance payments | 166 |
| Subpart 4—Commencement, stand downs, ending, and expiry and regrant | ||
| Commencement of benefits | ||
| 311 | General | 166 |
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