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Change in living arrangements

MSD must review if a client qualifies for Child Disability Allowance whenever a child (that Child Disability Allowance is paid for) moves into:

Where the client no longer qualifies for Child Disability Allowance, payment must stop from the beginning of the pay period following the date living arrangements changed.

Child Disability Allowance is paid 2 weeks in arrears and is paid fortnightly on a Tuesday. The first day of the pay period would be the Wednesday after the Child Disability Allowance payday.

Care and protection concerns

If MSD believes any child has been, or is likely to be harmed (physically, emotionally or sexually), ill-treated, abused, neglected, deprived or MSD has concerns about the wellbeing of the child, the case must be referred to Oranga Tamariki.

For more information see:

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Oranga Tamariki-Ministry for Children is known as "Oranga Tamariki". It came into existence on 1 April 2017, and replaced what was known as "Child, Youth and Family" or CYF.

Its original name, from 1 April 2017 until 18 January 2018, was the "Ministry for Vulnerable Children, Oranga Tamariki".