Section Sch6-3 — Social Security Act 2018: Purposes

3 Purposes Information may be obtained under clause 2 for all or any of the following purposes: (a) determining whether a person who has made a claim for, is receiving, or has received, a benefit or payment under any of the following enactments or programmes is or was entitled to receive that benefit or that payment: (i) this Act (for example, under a reciprocity agreement adopted by an order made under section 380 ); or (ii) Part 6 of the Veterans’ Support Act 2014: (iii) Part 1 of the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act 2001: (iv) a welfare programme approved by the Minister under section 101 of this Act: (v) the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018 : (b) determining the rate of benefit or payment that is or was applicable to that person: (c) determining whether a person who has been issued with, or has made a claim for, an entitlement card under regulations in force under section 437 is or was entitled to be issued with that card: (d) conducting or reviewing a means assessment under Part 6 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018 (relating to payment for LTR contracted care as defined in section 10 of that Act), or determining whether a means assessment of that kind is correct: (e) determining, under Part 8 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018, the amount that a person is required to pay towards the cost of the home-based disability support services supplied to that person, and whether a person who has been so assessed is entitled to that assessment: (f) ascertaining the financial circumstances or whereabouts of a person who is indebted to the Crown under— (i) this Act (for example, under a reciprocity agreement adopted by an order made under section 380 ); or (ii) sections 27I to 27ZI (except section 27X ) of, and Schedule 20 of, the Social Security Act 1964 (as preserved by section 256(1) of the Child Support Act 1991); or (iii) section 61CA of the Social Security Act 1964 ( Family Proceedings Act 1980 maintenance payable to the Crown) (as that section is saved by clause 49 of Schedule 1): (iv) the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018 : (g) discharging MSD’s functions under, or under any regulations in force under, an enactment or a programme in paragraph (a)(i) to (v). Compare: 1964 No 136 s 11(2)