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Work homepage
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Overview
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Looking for work
We have jobs available now in various industries and you can search on our job websites.
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Help with your job search
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Our programmes can help you get ready for work with training and work experience.
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Job Connect on Facebook
Find out how we can help you get ready to work, find work, and support available while you're working.
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Help with work costs
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Get all the support and advice you need to stay in work.
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Health and disability
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Help for 16-19 year olds
We’ve got extra support for young people to get ready for work and find a job.
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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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16-19 year olds
Education, training, work and benefit help for 16-19 year olds
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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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Housing homepage
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Overview
Find out how we can help you with housing.
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Nowhere to stay
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Find a house
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Move house
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Sole Parent Support
Sole Parent Support is a weekly payment that helps single parents find part-time work or get ready for future work.
This benefit:
- helps you get ready for future work (if your youngest child is under 3)
- supports you to find part-time work (if your youngest child is 3 or over)
- may mean you can get help with education and training.
Only one parent or caregiver can get Sole Parent Support. Shared care of your child could affect your payments.
You may get Sole Parent Support if you:
- are aged 20 or older (if you're 19 or younger, you may be able to get a Young Parent Payment)
- are a single parent or caregiver
- have one or more dependent children under 14
- are not in a relationship, and
- do not have adequate financial support.
You also need to:
- be either:
- a New Zealand citizen
- a permanent resident, or
- have a residence visa under the Immigration Act 2009
- have lived continuously in NZ for at least 2 years since either:
- becoming a NZ citizen
- becoming a permanent resident, or
- getting a residence class visa
- be ordinarily resident in NZ, and
- be ordinarily resident in New Zealand when you apply.
If you meet all the above criteria except for the one about how long you've lived in New Zealand, talk to us.
This information is a guide only. For more detail about who can get it, read:
Check if you can get Sole Parent Support
To find out if you could get Sole Parent Support and what else you might qualify for, use our 'Check what you might get' tool.
Sole Parent Support is paid weekly. How much you get depends on your situation and how much you earn.
If you get Sole Parent Support, you'll also automatically get a Winter Energy Payment. This is paid during the Winter months.
You can apply online through MyMSD. We'll also check to see if you can get any other help from us, based on the answers you give in your application.
If you want to get child support through Inland Revenue, you can apply through us when you complete your online application. Or you can apply through Inland Revenue. Any child support payments you get will be counted as income for your benefit.
Once you've submitted your online form, we'll call you if there's anything else you need to do.
If your application's approved
- We'll let you know when your payments will start.
- We'll send you a Community Services Card to help with the costs of healthcare and public transport.
- You may get a family tax credit. This can be paid with your benefit or from Inland Revenue (it depends what option you chose when you applied for your benefit).
There are things you need to do when you're getting a Sole Parent Support benefit. If you don't do them, your benefit could reduce or stop. This includes things like:
- telling us if something changes
- finding or preparing for work
- taking part in work ability assessments.
If you're getting Sole Parent Support and you still need it after a year, you have to re-apply.
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