Skip to main content
background pattern
Work and income | Te Hiranga Tangata
  • Employers
  • Providers
  • Go to MyMSD login
  • Work homepage

    • 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.

    • Get ready to work

      You can get training, help with CVs and cover letters, and advice for job interviews.

    • Find jobs

      Find out what jobs are available, which job is best for you and how you can plan your career.

    • Working

      Whether you've just started a job or need some help at work, we've got your back.

    • Lost your job

      We'll help you get ready to find a new job and support you while you're between jobs.

    • Start your own business

      Get help to plan and set up a successful business or be a self-employed contractor.

  • Benefits and payments homepage

    • Overview

      Take a look at the range of benefits and payments we have available.

    • Not working

      Redundancy, health condition or disability or another reason you can’t work

    • Living expenses

      Food, school costs, power, accommodation or other living expenses you need help with

    • Relationship changes

      You’ve had a relationship break-up, family breakdown or violent relationship end

    • Health and Disability

      Counselling, prescription and GP costs, medical alarms and other costs we can help with

    • Seniors

      Travelling overseas, how to apply, payment rates and dates, overseas pensions, income and other info for Seniors

    • Caring

      Caring for someone else’s child or someone with a health condition, injury or disability

    • Urgent or unexpected costs

      Dental, glasses, car repairs, fridge, washing machine, funeral or other urgent costs you need help with

    • Children

      Childcare, school uniforms, stationery, having a baby and other costs if you have children

    • Moving to New Zealand

      Payments you can get from us, settling into NZ, overseas pensions and more.

    • Benefits and forms

      A-Z list of benefits, forms, benefit rates

  • On a benefit homepage

    • Overview

      Check out what you need to do when you're getting a benefit or other payment from us.

    • Something's changed

      Address, contact details, overseas travel, childcare, relationship or anything else that’s changed.

    • Income

      Declare income and income deduction tables

    • Childcare

      Change in your childcare situation, continue childcare payments, cohort entry schools and other childcare information

    • Going overseas

      Travelling or moving overseas may affect your payments.

    • Re-apply, review or renew

      Re-apply for a payment, review circumstances, renew medical certificate and more

    • Payments

      Check or stop your payments, payment cards and other information

    • Debt

      Check your debt, repayments and other debt information

    • Rights and responsibilities

      Our commitment to you,  obligations, complaints, benefit fraud and more

  • Housing homepage

    • Overview

      Find out how we can help you with housing.

    • Nowhere to stay

      Get help if you have nowhere to stay right now.

    • Find a house

      Find out where to look for private housing, or apply for public (social) housing.

    • Living in your home

      Get help with accommodation costs, and advice on any housing issues and public housing tenancies.

    • Moving house

      Find out how we can help if you’re moving house.

    • Other languages

      Read some of our housing information in other languages.

  • Go to the Work and Income home page
When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.
  • MyMSD login
  • Online Services
    • Apply online
    • Apply for NZ Super
    • MyMSD
    • Check what you might get
    • Kimi Mahi Mai - Find a Job
    • List a job vacancy
    • Help with online services
  • Work
    • Get ready to work
    • Find jobs
    • Working
    • Lost your job
    • Start your own business
  • Benefits and payments
    • Carers
      • Caring for someone with a health condition, injury or disability
      • Caring for a child with a disability
      • Caring for someone else's child
    • Children
      • Childcare
      • Having a baby
      • School costs
      • Caring for someone else's child
    • Emergencies
      • Civil Defence Payment
      • Rural Assistance Payment
      • Enhanced Taskforce Green
    • Health and disability
      • Vehicle modification
      • Contraception
      • Counselling
      • Dental treatment
      • Glasses
      • House modification
      • Medical alarms
      • Prescriptions and health practitioner costs
      • Residential care
      • Travel costs
    • Living expenses
      • Heating and power bills
      • Managing your money
      • Public transport fares
    • You're not working
      • Redundancy
      • Health condition or disability
      • Fired or left
      • Deported to NZ
      • Released from prison
    • Relationships
      • Break-up
      • Family breakdown
      • Violent relationships
    • Seniors
      • Find out if you can get NZ Super or Veteran's Pension
      • NZ Superannuation
      • Veteran's Pension
      • SuperGold Card
      • Other payments
    • Urgent costs
      • Food
      • Accommodation
      • Power, gas and water bills or heating
      • Dental treatment
      • Glasses
      • Whiteware
      • Medical costs
      • House repairs and maintenance
      • Car repairs
      • Bereavement
      • Fire or theft
    • Moving to NZ
      • Overseas pensions
  • On a benefit
    • Changes and income
      • Income
      • Change housing details
      • Relationships
      • Change bank account
      • Child enters or leaves your care
      • Change contact details
    • Going overseas
      • On a benefit
      • NZ Super or Veteran's Pension
    • Re-apply, review or renew
      • Re-apply for Jobseeker Support
      • Re-apply for Sole Parent Support
      • Re-apply for TAS
      • Renew medical certificate or information
      • Review of circumstances and annual income
    • Obligations
      • Jobseeker Support obligations
      • Supported Living Payment obligations
      • Sole Parent Support obligations
      • When you don’t meet your obligations
    • Payments
      • Check your payments
      • Changes to your payments
      • Money management for youth clients
      • Stop your payments
      • Stop your childcare payments
      • Payment cards
    • Debt
      • Repay debt while on benefit or pension
      • Repay debt if not on benefit or pension
    • Childcare
      • Change in circumstances
      • Continuing pre-school childcare
      • Continuing childcare when your child's at school
      • Stop childcare
      • Childcare absences
      • Move to OSCAR
      • Extending childcare
    • Having another child
    • Arrest warrants
    • Your rights and responsibilities
      • Your obligations
      • Have someone act on your behalf
      • Fraud and investigations
      • Our commitment to you
  • Housing
    • Nowhere to stay
      • Emergency housing
      • Escaping family violence
      • Leaving prison
    • Find a house
      • Who can get public housing
      • Apply for public housing
      • Waiting for public housing
      • Accepting a public housing offer
    • Living in your home
      • Housing costs
      • Living in public housing
      • Staying in emergency housing
    • Moving house
      • Bond Grant
      • Accommodation Security Cover Grant
      • Accommodation Costs in Advance Grant
      • Moving Costs Grant
      • Tenancy Costs Cover
      • Transition to Alternative Housing Grant
      • Transfer to another public housing property
    • Other languages
  • Benefits, rates and forms
    • A-Z benefits
    • Benefit rates
    • Forms
    • Income and cash asset limits
  • Providers
    • Housing providers
      • Property owners and landlords
      • Emergency housing suppliers
      • Transitional housing providers
      • Public housing providers
    • Getting payments from us
      • Register as a supplier
      • Ways you can be paid
      • Manage your supplier details
      • Refund money you owe
    • Activity in the Community projects
    • Health and disability practitioners
      • Guides and forms
      • Roles
      • Assisting people into work
      • Medical certificates
      • Health and disability related benefits
      • Designated health practitioners second opinions
      • Medical appeals
    • Childcare assistance
      • Registering your childcare service
      • Become an approved OSCAR provider
      • How we can help you
      • Tell us when things change
      • Payment schedules
      • Contacting us if you're a childcare or OSCAR provider
    • Advocates
    • Employment and training providers
    • Forms
  • About Work and Income
    • Contact us
      • Phone us
      • Our locations
      • International Services
      • Overseas pension agencies
      • Veterans' contacts
      • Deaf, hard of hearing, speech impairment
      • Other languages
      • Service Express
      • Report a suspected fraud
    • Our services
      • Our commitment to you
      • Cheap as data
      • Documents to provide when you apply
      • Appointments
      • About International Services
      • Words we use
      • Become a contracted provider
      • Information for trespassed clients
    • Our privacy notice
      • Collecting your information
      • Using your information
      • Sharing your information
      • Respecting your information
      • Managing your information
    • Feedback and complaints
      • Making a complaint
      • Review of a decision
      • Review of a medical decision
      • Online surveys
    • News
    • Careers at Work and Income
  • About this site
    • Accessibility
    • Privacy, disclaimer and copyright information
    • Online security
  • Employers
    • Recruitment
      • List a vacancy
      • Hire an LSV graduate
      • Hire disabled people or people with health conditions
      • Shortlisting
      • Pre-employment drug testing
      • Make an employment offer
      • Hiring migrant workers
    • Extra support and training
      • Flexi-wage
      • Apprenticeship Boost
      • Mana in Mahi
      • Skills for Industry
      • Support once your employee starts work
      • Mainstream programmes
      • Modifications to your workplace
    • Industry partnerships
    • Redundancy support
    • Emergencies and adverse events
    • Employee debt
  1. Home
  2. About Work and Income
  3. Contact us
  4. We speak other languages
  5. Ko e founga te mau ala tokoni atu ai kiate koé

WARNING: Your device is running Android version 7 or below. From September, you may experience issues accessing our website. We recommend using the Firefox browser.

About Work and Income

  • Contact us
    • Phone us
    • Our locations
    • International Services
    • Overseas pension agencies
    • Veterans' contacts
    • Deaf, hard of hearing, speech impairment
    • Other languages
    • Service Express
    • Report a suspected fraud
  • Our services
  • Our privacy notice
  • Feedback and complaints
  • News
  • Careers at Work and Income

Ko e founga te mau ala tokoni atu ai kiate koé

Read or listen in Tongan about how we can help you, and find out how to speak with someone in Tongan.

Talanoa mai kiate kimautolu ‘i he lea fakaTongá

Your browser does not support the audio tag.
Talanoa mai kiate kimautolu ‘i he lea fakaTongá
View transcript of 'Talanoa mai kiate kimautolu ‘i he lea fakaTongá' audio

Kapau ‘oku fiema‘u ke ke talanoa mo kimautolu, telefoni mai ki he fika 0800 559 009 pe 0800 552 002 kapau ‘oku lahi hake ho ta‘u motu‘á ‘i he 65. Kapau ‘okú ke fie talanoa mo kimautolu ‘i he lea fakaTongá telefoni mai ‘i he fika 0800 669 009. ‘Oku ta‘etotongi ‘a e ngaahi telefoni ko ‘ení.

Kapau te ke fakataha mo kimautolu, te ke ala ha‘u mo ha tokotaha kehe ke tokoni atu kiate koe.

Ko e founga te mau ala tokoni atu ai kiate koé

Your browser does not support the audio tag.
Ko e founga te mau ala tokoni atu ai kiate koé
View transcript of 'Ko e founga te mau ala tokoni atu ai kiate koé' audio

'I he Work and Income, 'oku mau fakafou atu ai 'a e tokoni 'a e Pule'anga Nu'u Silá ki he kakai 'oku laka hake 'i he toko taha miliona 'i he ta'u.

Te mau ala tokoni atu kapau 'oku 'ikai ke 'i ai ha'o;o ngāue mo ke fiema'u ha pa'anga ki ho'o nofó. Pe kapau 'okú ke ngāue kā 'okú ke fiema'u ha pa'anga ke totongi ho'o ngaahi mo'uá. Kapau 'oku 'i ai ha'o ngaahi fakamole makehe tupu meí ha'o mo'ua 'i ha faingata'a'ia fakaesino, te mau toe ala tokoni atu foki. 'Oku mau toe totongi atu foki 'a e NZ Super ki he kakai 'oku laka hake honau ta'u motu'á 'i he 65.

Kātaki 'o talanoa mai kiate kimautolu kapau 'okú ke fiema'u ha tokoni ki ha fale nofo'anga. Te mau ala talanoa atu fekau'aki mo ha ngaahi founga kehekehe 'e ala tokoni ki hano ma'u atu 'o ha nofo'anga māfana, malu, mātu'u mo hao foki.

Te mau toe ala tokoni atu foki ke kumi ha'o ngāue.

'Oku ma'u atu 'i he uepisaiti 'a e Work and Income ha ngaahi fakamatala fekau'aki mo e founga te mau ala tokoni atu aí pea mo e founga ke ke tohi kole mai aí.

Ko e founga faingofua taha 'o e tohi kolé ki he tokolahi ko hono fakahū mai 'o e kolé 'i he 'initanetí 'o ngāue'aki 'a e MyMSD. Te ke toe ala fai foki mo e ngaahi me'a kehe ange 'i he MyMSD 'o hangē ko e puka 'o ha 'apoinimeni mo vakai'i ho'o ngaahi totongi meiate kimautolú. Kumi ki he founga hono ngāue'aki 'o e MyMSD 'i he 'emau uepisaití.

'Oku mau fiema'u ke ke ma'u atu ha sēvesi lelei meiate kimautolu. 'Oku fakahā atu 'i he 'emau uepisaití 'a e sēvesi te ke ala ma'u atu meiate kimautolú. 'Okú ne toe fakahā atu ai foki mo e me'a ke ke fai kapau 'oku 'ikai te ke fiemālie ki he 'emau sēvesí pe ki ha tu'utu'uni kuo mau fakahokó, founga ki ha'o fakahoko ha lāunga pe ko hano 'omai 'o ha fokotu'u fakakaukau.

Kapau 'okú ke faingata'a'ia pe faingata'a'ia ho fāmilí, pe 'oku 'ikai ha feitu'u ke mou nofo ai, kātaki 'o fetu'utaki mai kiate kimautolu. Tatau ai pē kapau 'e 'ikai malava ke mau tokoni atu, te mau ala 'ilo ha kautaha kehe ke tokoni atu.

Manatu'i, 'oku 'i heni 'a e Work and Income ke tokoni atu kiate ko e mo ho fāmilí 'i he taimi 'e fiema'u a'.

How we can help

  • Benefits and payments
  • Work
  • On a benefit
  • Housing

Online services

  • Check what you might get
  • Find work
  • Apply online
  • MyMSD
  • How to stay safe online

About

  • About Work and Income
  • About this site
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy, disclaimer and copyright

Contact us

  • Phone numbers
  • Find a service centre
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Feedback
  • Help in other languages
Go to Ministry of Social Development's website Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa / New Zealand Government Shielded Site