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- Where a Contracting Party pays a benefit to a person residing in the territory of the other Contracting Party, that Contracting Party will disregard any income tested benefit paid to that person or the spouse of that person by the other Contracting Party.
- 2
- Where a person has incurred social security debts in both the Netherlands and New Zealand by virtue of the fact that the 1990 Agreement conferred on that person an entitlement to a higher rate of Netherlands old age benefit than would otherwise be payable, and the Netherlands company pension fund reimburses New Zealand for half of the debt incurred by that fund due to the same higher old age benefit entitlement, the Government of New Zealand shall write off the remainder of its debts of that person incurred by reason of that same higher entitlement and pay the debtor any amount that exceeds the difference between half the original New Zealand debt due to that same higher entitlement and the amount reimbursed by the Netherlands company pension fund and/or the amount of that original debt already repaid by the debtor to the New Zealand Government.
