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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, review or renew
Re-apply for a payment, review circumstances, renew medical certificate 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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loginDeclaration - COVID-19 Leave payment
By submitting this form, you (the employer or self-employed person) are declaring that you:
- Meet the eligibility criteria for the payment:
- The employees named in your application are legally employed in New Zealand, cannot undertake work and:
- are self-isolating in accordance with public health guidance, have registered with Healthline and are not a person who is self isolating because they left New Zealand after the travel restrictions came into effect after 15 March 2020; or
- are caring for dependents who are required to self-isolate or who are sick with COVID-19; or
- are sick with COVID 19.
- You agree you will promptly pass on as wages or salary, in full, the COVID-19 Leave Payment directly to employees named in your application
- The employees named in your application are legally employed in New Zealand, cannot undertake work and:
- Will notify the Ministry of Social Development if anything changes that may affect your eligibility.
- Have discussed this application with the employees named in your application and that they have consented (in writing, if practicable) to the information about them in the application:
- Being provided to the Ministry of Social Development; and
- Being used by the Ministry of Social Development to make decisions about your application and to audit and review any subsidy or payment that is granted; and
- Being shared by the Ministry of Social Development with other agencies to the extent required by MSD, it's staff and auditors to make decisions about your application and to audit and review any payment that is granted.
- Will provide the Ministry of Social Development with information about you, your business or (with their consent) your employees to the extent required by the Ministry of Social Development, it's staff or auditors to make decisions about your application and to audit and review any payment that is granted.
- Consent to the Ministry of Social Development sharing information provided in this application about you or your business with other agencies to the extent necessary to make decisions about your application and to audit and review any payment that is granted.
- Consent to the Ministry of Social Development publishing basic identifying information about your business and the level and duration of any payment provided to you (excluding any personal information about your employees) on a publicly accessible register
- Acknowledge and agree all of the information you have provided to the Ministry of Social Development is true and correct
- Agree to repay any payment made to you if you:
- were not or stop being entitled to the payment
- provide false or misleading information in your application;
- receive business interruption insurance
- Acknowledge if you have provided false or misleading information, or receive any payment that you were not entitled to receive, you may be subject to an investigation including for offences under the Crimes Act 1961.
- Acknowledge that this declaration forms part of your application.
- Acknowledge that the Ministry of Social Development may amend this agreement at any time and at their discretion.
In submitting your application you also acknowledge and/or agree:
- The Ministry of Social Development collects the information in this application and form to determine whether you are eligible to receive assistance.
- The Ministry of Social Development will use the information provided in this application to assess your eligibility to receive the COVID-19 Leave Payment. The Ministry of Social Development may also use the information to contact you or for research and reporting purposes, or to advise you on the matters relating to the assistance you applied for.
- The Ministry will not use the information provided in this application for any other purpose or for assessing entitlement to any other assistance available from the Ministry unless required or authorised by law.
- Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to request access to all information held about yourself and to request corrections to that information.