28 Jul 2015
LITTLE v THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT [2015] NZHC 1744
- Citation
- [2015] NZHC 1744
- Court
- High Court
The Authority and Chief Executive correctly included the applicant's bank savings within the statutory definition of cash assets in both the Special Needs Grants Programme and the Advance Payment of Benefits Direction; the schemes afford no discretion to disregard earmarked savings and no exceptional circumstances existed to warrant an advance, therefore the appeals fail.