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2008/53 Social Security (Rates of Beneﬁts and Allowances) Order 2008 Anand Satyanand, Governor­General Order in Council At Wellington this 3rd day of March 2008 Present: His Excellency the Governor­General in Council Pursuant to section 61H of the Social Security Act 1964 and section 15 of the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act 2001, His Excellency the Governor­General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following order.
Contents Title Commencement Increasing amount of funeral grants Increasing asset and income limits and certain beneﬁts and allowances payable under Social Security Act 1964 Increasing New Zealand superannuation, etc, payable under New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act 2001 Consequential revocation Page 2 2 2 2 2 3 1 cl 1 Social Security (Rates of Beneﬁts and Allowances) Order 2008 2008/53 Schedule 1 Increases to asset and income limits and certain beneﬁts and allowances payable under Social Security Act 1964 Schedule 2 Increases to New Zealand superannuation, etc, payable under New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act 2001 3 5 Order Title This order is the Social Security (Rates of Beneﬁts and Allow­ ances) Order 2008.
Commencement This order comes into force on 1 April 2008.

Increasing amount of funeral grants Sections 61DB, 61DC, and 61DD of the Social Security Act 1964 are amended by omitting “$1,706.31” and substituting in each case “$1,760.57”.

The amendments made by subclause (1) apply only in respect of persons who die on or after 1 April 2008.
Increasing asset and income limits and certain beneﬁts and allowances payable under Social Security Act 1964 Each provision of the Social Security Act 1964 listed in the ﬁrst column of Schedule 1 is amended by omitting the expres­ sion set out opposite to it in the second column and substitut­ ing in each case the expression set out opposite to it in the third column.
Increasing New Zealand superannuation, etc, payable under New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act 2001 Each provision of the New Zealand Superannuation and Re­ tirement Income Act 2001 listed in the ﬁrst column of Sched­ 1 2 3 (1) (2) 4 5 2 2008/53 Social Security (Rates of Beneﬁts and Allowances) Order 2008 Schedule 1 ule 2 is amended by omitting the expression set out opposite to it in the second column and substituting in each case the ex­ pression set out opposite to it in the third column.
6 Consequential revocation The Social Security (Rates of Beneﬁts and Allowances) Order 2007 (SR 2007/60) is consequentially revoked.
Schedule 1 Increases to asset and income limits and certain beneﬁts and allowances payable under Social Security Act 1964 cl 4 Provisions amended Schedule 3 Clause 1 Clause 2 Schedule 4 Clause 1(a) Clause 1(b) Clause 1(c) Clause 1(d) Schedule 6 Clause 1(a) Clause 1(b) Clause 1(c) Clause 1(e) Clause 1(f) Clause 1(g) Clause 2 Schedule 9 Clause 1(aa) Expressions omitted ($) Expressions substituted ($) Schedule 1 Social Security (Rates of Beneﬁts and Allowances) Order 2008 2008/53 Provisions amended Clause 1(a) Schedule 9—continued Clause 1(b) Clause 1(c) Clause 1(d) Clause 1(e) Clause 1(f) Clause 2 Clause 5 Schedule 16 Clause 1 Clause 2 Schedule 17 Clause 1 Clause 2 Clause 3 Clause 5 Clause 6 Clause 7 Clause 8 Schedule 19 Clause 1 Clause 2 Clause 3 Schedule 22 Clause 1 Clause 2 Schedule 26 Clause 1 Clause 2 Clause 3 Schedule 31 Clause 1 4 Expressions omitted ($) 148.73 Expressions substituted ($) 2008/53 Social Security (Rates of Beneﬁts and Allowances) Order 2008 Schedule 2 Provisions amended Clause 2 Schedule 31—continued Clause 3 Clause 4 Clause 5 Clause 6 Clause 7 Clause 8 Clause 9 Clause 10 Clause 11 Clause 12 Clause 13 Clause 14 Expressions omitted ($) 1487.46 Expressions substituted ($) 1534.76 1172.13 1259.12 407.75 468.64 680.66 568.66 599.11 440.65 510.01 742.05 614.57 647.48 1209.40 1299.16 420.72 483.54 702.30 586.74 618.16 454.66 526.23 765.65 634.11 668.07 Schedule 2 Increases to New Zealand superannuation, etc, payable under New Zealand Superannuation and
 Retirement Income Act 2001 cl 5 Provisions amended Schedule 1 Clause 1(a) Clause 1(b) Clause 1(c) Clause 2(a) Clause 2(b) Clause 3 Clause 4 Expressions omitted ($) Expressions substituted ($) 336.65 309.66 255.70 511.40 486.56 32.69 32.69 347.77 320.11 264.37 528.74 502.84 33.73 33.73 5 Social Security (Rates of Beneﬁts and Allowances) Order 2008 2008/53 Rebecca Kitteridge, for Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order, which comes into force on 1 April 2008, increases most beneﬁts and pensions.

Clauses 3 and 4 amend the Social Security Act 1964.

Clause 5 amends the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act 2001.

Clause 3 increases the amounts of funeral grants.


Clause 4 and Schedule 1 increase the following beneﬁts or allow­ ances: widow’s, orphan’s, unsupported child’s, invalid’s, unemploy­ ment, sickness, domestic purposes, child disability, disability, inde­ pendent youth, related emergency beneﬁts, and the long­term hos­ pital rates.

The maximum amount of income that a blind beneﬁciary may earn, and still receive a subsidy, is also increased, as are the as­ set and income limits in Schedule 31.
Clause 5 and Schedule 2 increase the rates of New Zealand super­ annuation entitlements.

The rates of New Zealand superannuation that are amended are the gross rates, but the CPI adjustment has been calculated in relation to the net rate in each case.

These increases reﬂect a 3.18% increase in the New Zealand Con­ sumers Price Index (All Groups) from the December 2006 quarter to the December 2007 quarter.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.
Date of notiﬁcation in Gazette: 6 March 2008.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Social Development.

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