Provision was made in policy guidelines to refuse to grant or cancel an Unemployment Benefit when a person has deliberately and without good reason moved to a locality where there is no work available either with the intention of living on the benefit in an isolated area or engaging in leisure activities not normally available to a working person, other than in holiday periods.[i]
Footnotes
[i] go to main content Alex McKenzie, Social Assistance Chronology 1844–2022: A historical summary of social security benefits, war pensions, retirement pensions, taxation measures, family assistance, housing assistance, student support and labour market programmes (as at April 2022), Ministry of Social Development, p. 154.