Social Security (Winter Energy Payment) Amendment Bill

  • enacted

Part 1 Winter energy payment for winter periods in and after 2019 calendar year

4 Section 72 amended (Winter energy payment: requirements)

Replace section 72(2)(c) and (d) with:

(c)

the person is aged 65 years or over, is a qualifying person as defined in section 12 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018, and must under section 17 of that Act pay a contribution based on income towards the cost of that person’s LTR contracted care that is less than the maximum contribution (as defined in section 15(2) of that Act); or

(ca)

the person is aged 50 to 64 years, is a 50+ single person as defined in section 21 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018, and is under section 22 of that Act liable to make a contribution based on income towards the cost of the person’s LTR contracted care that is less than the maximum contribution (as defined in section 15(2) of that Act); or

(d)

the person is receiving disability support services as defined in section 6 of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 that are residential care services (other than long-term residential care) funded, in whole or in part, under that Act, because the person

(i)

has a disability that is an intellectual, neurological, physical, psychiatric, or sensory disability (including, without limitation, an autistic spectrum disorder) or is a long-term chronic health condition; and

(ii)

is not a qualifying person or special case person, as those terms are defined respectively in sections 12 and 20 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018, who is funding eligible, and has been positively needs assessed, under sections 13 and 14 of that Act; or

(d)

neither paragraph (c) nor paragraph (ca) applies to the person, and the person is

(i)

receiving, in relation to the person’s disability or long-term chronic health condition, residential care services that are partly funded under the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000; and

(ii)

contributing to the cost of those services by a payment redirected under section 339(1)(a) or (c)(i), or sections 341 and 344, of this Act; or