Confirm OSCAR Subsidy payments every term
If you want to keep getting childcare payments for before, after school and holiday care for your child, you need to confirm that with us every term.
How to tell us
We'll send you an Out of School Care and Recreation (OSCAR) declaration form to complete about a month before the school term ends. Or you can download the form.
The form asks you to confirm your childcare arrangements, or let us know about any changes, eg, your child goes to after school care but now needs care in the holidays.
- Download the OSCAR declaration form
- Print the form and get your childcare provider to complete and sign the 'OSCAR Programme Supervisor to complete' section.
- Post the completed form to your local service centre or you can email paperwork to us at Centralised_childcare_reviews@msd.govt.nz.
If you can't print the form, contact us and we'll send one to you.
Find your nearest service centre
If your child is in more than one programme, you need to complete a declaration form for each.
When you need to reapply
If it's been more than 8 weeks since you got the OSCAR Subsidy for before, after school or holiday care you'll need to apply again.
You will also need to reapply if:
- you want to enrol an additional child
- your before, after school or holiday care payments have been cancelled.