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Work homepage
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Overview
We can help you get ready to apply and find the right job for you. We can even help you while you're working.
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Get ready to work
You can get training, help with CVs and cover letters, and advice for job interviews.
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Find jobs
Find out what jobs are available, which job is best for you and how you can plan your career.
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Working
Whether you've just started a job or need some help at work, we've got your back.
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Lost your job
We'll help you get ready to find a new job and support you while you're between jobs.
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Start your own business
Get help to plan and set up a successful business or be a self-employed contractor.
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Benefits and payments homepage
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Overview
Take a look at the range of benefits and payments we have available.
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Not working
Redundancy, health condition or disability or another reason you can’t work
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Living expenses
Food, school costs, power, accommodation or other living expenses you need help with
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Relationship changes
You’ve had a relationship break-up, family breakdown or violent relationship end
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Health and Disability
Counselling, prescription and GP costs, medical alarms and other costs we can help with
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Seniors
Travelling overseas, how to apply, payment rates and dates, overseas pensions, income and other info for Seniors
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Caring
Caring for someone else’s child or someone with a health condition, injury or disability
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Urgent or unexpected costs
Dental, glasses, car repairs, fridge, washing machine, funeral or other urgent costs you need help with
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Children
Childcare, school uniforms, stationery, having a baby and other costs if you have children
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Moving to New Zealand
Payments you can get from us, settling into NZ, overseas pensions and more.
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Benefits and forms
A-Z list of benefits, forms, benefit rates
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On a benefit homepage
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Overview
Check out what you need to do when you're getting a benefit or other payment from us.
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Something's changed
Address, contact details, overseas travel, childcare, relationship or anything else that’s changed.
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Income
Declare income and income deduction tables
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Childcare
Change in your childcare situation, continue childcare payments, cohort entry schools and other childcare information
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Going overseas
Travelling or moving overseas may affect your payments.
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Re-apply
Re-apply for Jobseeker Support, Sole Parent Support, Temporary Additional Support and more
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Payments
Check or stop your payments, payment cards and other information
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Debt
Check your debt, repayments and other debt information
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Rights and responsibilities
Our commitment to you, obligations, complaints, benefit fraud and more
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Housing homepage
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Overview
Find out how we can help you with housing.
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Nowhere to stay
Get help if you have nowhere to stay right now.
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Find a house
Find out where to look for private housing, or apply for public (social) housing.
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Living in your home
Get help with accommodation costs, and advice on any housing issues and public housing tenancies.
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Moving house
Find out how we can help if you’re moving house.
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Other languages
Read some of our housing information in other languages.
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Our privacy notice
Our privacy notice tells you what we do with your personal information. This includes how we collect, use and share it. We will always treat your information with respect and keep it safe to protect your privacy.
We're committed to respecting your privacy and being clear about how we use your information and who we share it with
View transcript of 'Privacy notice' video
Kia ora
Today you’ll find out about why we collect information about you, what we do with it and how we keep it safe.
Our job is to help you to be safe, strong and independent.
We collect your personal information so we can support your employment, education and living needs.
To deliver our services to you, we use information you give to us and sometimes information from others.
We need to know some things like your birth date, address and other information.
There’s certain information we need to be able to give you a benefit or payment.
You can choose not to give us this information but it means we can’t pay you.
We promise to treat you and your information with respect. We will use your information responsibly and keep it safe.
We use your personal information when we work with you to determine what sort of help we can give you.
We also use information to help us run our operations and design new services or tools.
Sometimes we need to share your information with other agencies or people.
We do this so we can provide you with the right services or when we have a legal reason to share it.
You have a right to see the information we hold on you and you can ask for it to be corrected if it’s wrong.
To find out more about how we collect, use and respect your personal information, please see our privacy notice available on our websites.