Privacy Statement
Privacy Statement
The Privacy Act 1993 requires us to tell you that:
- The information you give us is collected under the authority of the legislation administered by the Ministry of Social Development.
- The information will be held by the Ministry of Social Development.
- The information is collected for the purposes of the legislation administered by the Ministry of Social Development (including Work and Income, Child, Youth and Family and other service lines of the Ministry), and in particular for:
- granting benefits and other assistance under the Social Security Act 1964
- providing employment related services
- statistical and research purposes
- providing advice to Government
- care and protection needs of children
- providing support and services for you and your family
- providing education related services.
- Work and Income may contact health providers to verify any health related information you give us.
- Work and Income may give employers information about you to find you employment. Where Work and Income refer you to a job vacancy, we may also contact the employer to discuss the result of any job interview that you attend.
- Work and Income may share information you have given us with childcare centres to administer your entitlement to childcare.
- Other information that you give us on your skills, aspirations, family circumstances etc, and that is not required to assess your entitlement to a benefit may be used to provide a better service to you by the Ministry of Social Development.
- The information you give us may be compared with information held by Inland Revenue, the Ministry of Justice, the Department of Corrections, the New Zealand Customs Service, the Department of Internal Affairs, the Accident Compensation Corporation, Housing New Zealand Corporation, Ministry of Health and Immigration New Zealand. It may also be compared with social security information (for example, pension or benefit information) held by other governments (including Australia and the Netherlands).
- Under the Tax Administration Act 1994, if you have dependent children, the information you give us may be shared with Inland Revenue for the purpose of administering Working for Families Tax Credits. Inland Revenue may also:
- use the information for the purposes of child support, student loans and taxation
- disclose it to the Department of Labour, Statistics New Zealand, the Ministry of Justice, the Accident Compensation Corporation, and the Ministry of Education
- disclose your personal information to your partner.
- Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to ask to see all information we hold about you, and to ask us to correct that information.
- You are not required to give us information, but if you do not give us all the information we ask for, your application for benefits may be declined.
The legislation administered by the Ministry of Social Development allows us to check the information that you give us in this form.
This may happen when you apply for a benefit and at any time after that.
