What's new
6 May 2024
Accommodation Supplement and Overseas pensions
Overseas pensions impact a client's entitlement to Accommodation Supplement. The overseas pension is treated differently depending on whether the client applying for Accommodation Supplement is:
- getting New Zealand Superannuation, Veteran's Pension, or a main benefit or
- not getting New Zealand Superannuation, Veteran's Pension, or a main benefit
Guidance was inconsistent between the Payments from Overseas, and Accommodation Supplement Map manuals. Map has been updated to clarify how overseas pensions interact with Accommodation Supplement and to ensure information is consistent.
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Temporary Additional Support for full-time students who are caregivers
When a full-time student or their partner are the principal temporary caregiver of a dependent child, they can qualify for Temporary Additional Support.
See: Full-time students
Care and protection of children
Care and protection issues guidelines have been updated to provide refreshed and clarified information about the indicators that a child or young person has been or is at risk of harm, and what action you must take.
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1 May 2024
Initial stand-down periods
The current initial stand-down periods have been updated with changes to the Gross Average Ordinary Time Weekly Wage (AOTWW) as at 1 May 2024. See:
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30 April 2024
Assessment of eligibility - social housing
From 30 April 2024, there is a new fast-track on the social housing register, this is for clients with dependent children in emergency housing.
To qualify, the client must have been in emergency housing for at least 12 or more continuous weeks, and meet other qualifications.
The 2 existing fast-tracks (At risk of Rheumatic fever and in the care of Oranga Tamariki) have had no changes. These existing fast-tracks, have priority above the new emergency housing fast-track.
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