Childcare Assistance Programme : Contents
Fifty hours a week subsidy
In addition to the Childcare Subsidy qualifications, up to 50 hours a week subsidised childcare may be available to clients who are:
- in paid employment (including full-time, part-time, temporary and casual) or
- participating in an employment-related training course offered by a course provider accredited by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority or
- participating in an activity to improve work readiness or
- attending a course of study at a Tertiary Institution or Secondary School or
- temporarily unable to continue employment because of illness or injury or
- attending an approved rehabilitation programme or
- seriously disabled or ill caregivers or
- getting a Child Disability Allowance for a child or their sibling or
- caregivers of a sibling who is in hospital
Note if a client has a partner there must be a good and sufficient reason why they are not able to care for the child. Exception when the parents qualify for a Child Disability Allowance for the child attending the childcare service.
For more information see:
- Paid employment
- Training
- Study
- Temporary illness
- Seriously disabled or ill caregivers
- Child Disability Allowance
- Child's principal caregiver also cares for a child getting Child Disability Allowance
- Child's principal caregiver also cares for a child in hospital
- Clients with partners
- Twenty hours Early Childhood Education and Childcare Subsidy
- Twenty hours ECE and up to 9 hours Childcare Subsidy
- Twenty hours ECE and up to 50 hours Childcare Subsidy
Legislation
- Payment of childcare subsidy if principal caregiver in approved activity regulation 32 Social Security Regulations 2018
- Activities in respect of which childcare subsidy available under regulation 32 regulation 33 Social Security Regulations 2015
- Payment of childcare subsidy if principal caregiver not engaged in approved activity but has serious disability or illness regulation 34 Social Security Regulations 2018
