jun 29, 2015 - Housing Support Assistance Programme - changed
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A number of amendments were made to the Housing Support Assistance Ministerial Welfare Programme under the Social Security Act 1964. The amendments:
• introduced assistance for rent in advance as a standard grant;
• changed the existing letting fees assistance from recoverable to non-recoverable assistance; and
• provided new conditional grants of assistance towards bond, rent in advance and letting fees to encourage private landlords to let housing to people on the social housing register by providing written assurance that they will be able to access financial assistance towards the costs of entering a tenancy for alternative housing if certain conditions are met. These new conditional grants were be supported by a conditional grant letter and were recoverable in certain circumstances.
The Housing Support Assistance Programme had been introduced on 1 July 2014 and provided for the granting, at the discretion of the chief executive of the Ministry of Social Development and within the limits set out in the programme, of special assistance to alleviate hardship in relation to housing. The programme provided a number of financial products and also aimed to address barriers to accessing or retaining housing by meeting needs not covered by other forms of assistance. In general, assistance was available only to applicants who were tenants of social housing or were awaiting allocation of social housing,
Source: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/about-msd/history/social-assistance-chronology-programme-history.html
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