Costs for work, study, or employment-related training

Support for work, study, or employment-related training provides financial assistance for additional costs to support clients, for a specified period, participating in the following activities:

• employment
• study in an education course
• employment-related training or
• an activity we think is likely to improve the person's work readiness

Financial assistance for longer education and training courses are only for level 3 courses or below on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework.

The type of assistance provided will depend on the activity the client is undertaking. For the types of assistance see:

• Longer term education or training courses Training Incentive Allowance
• Short-term training Course Participation Assistance [no link find out why]  procedures

Income and assets

Clients applying for some types of assistance may need to have income and assets below certain limits. For more information see: Income limit and Asset limit