Assistance when caring for another person
When a client is a carer, they may be able to get financial assistance to help pay for a care-provider, and any associated costs, so the client can:
- get or stay in employment
- participate in education or
- attend employment-related training
Education or employment-related training must be level 7 or below on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework.
This assistance is available for:
- childcare
- the care of an elderly person or
- the care of a person with a health condition, injury or disability
and
- any associated costs (eg transport to the care-provider)
Payment
This financial assistance helps pay for the actual and reasonable costs to care for another person that exceed any financial assistance provided by any other publicly funded source (eg transport to the care-provider).
For more information see:
- Actual and reasonable costs
- Commencement date
- Changes and reviews
- Longer education or training courses Training Incentive Allowance
- Short-term training Course Participation Allowance [no link find out why] process
- Transition to work [no link find out why] process
Legislation
Purpose clause 3 Training Incentive Allowance Programme 2021
specified qualifying benefit (definition) clause 4(ii) Training Incentive Allowance Programme 2021
Kinds and amounts of employment and work readiness assistance Schedule (5) Employment and Work Readiness Assistance Programme
