Section 192 — Social Security Act 2018: MSD must reduce rates of benefits for sole parents for failure to assist child support

192 MSD must reduce rates of benefits for sole parents for failure to assist child support (1) This section applies to any person ( P ) who— (a) is a sole parent; and (b) receives one of the following benefits: (i) sole parent support: (ii) a supported living payment on the ground of restricted work capacity or total blindness: (iii) jobseeker support (except jobseeker support granted under section 25(3) or (4) ): (iv) a young parent payment: (v) an emergency benefit. (2) MSD must reduce the benefit in subsection (1)(b) payable to P in respect of each dependent child in P’s care for whom P is not receiving an orphan’s benefit or an unsupported child’s benefit by the prescribed amount ( see section 418(1)(i) ) if P fails or refuses to do any of the following things: (a) identify who is in law the other parent of the child: (b) apply for formula assessment of child support as required by section 9 of the Child Support Act 1991: (c) give in evidence, in a proceeding under the Child Support Act 1991 , all information that is required of P as a compellable witness under section 122 of that Act. (3) Subsection (2) is overridden by section 193 . (4) If P’s failure or refusal to do anything referred to in subsection (2) resulted in the reduction of P’s benefit, and P subsequently does that thing, the reduction of benefit under subsection (2) ceases to apply. Compare: 1964 No 136 s 70A(1), (2), (4)