Emergency Benefit : Contents
- Introduction
- Qualifications
- Deciding ordinarily resident
- Not eligible for another benefit
- Best interests of the client
- Client in hardship
- Unable to earn a sufficient livelihood
- Equivalent benefit
- Example of equivalent benefit
- Determining the reason for insufficient livelihood
- Health condition, injury or disability
- Domestic circumstances
- Caring responsibilities
- Dependent child
- Single and caring for a child
- Parent
- Partner of New Zealand Superannuation or Veteran's Pension client and caring for a child
- Caring for a person requiring care
- Medical criteria for person who requires care
- Medical evidence
- District Health Board assistance
- Ability of person requiring care to contribute to the cost of care
- Income of person requiring care
- Cash assets of person requiring care
- Example assessing cash assets
- Caring responsibilities
- Age
- Any other reason
- Partner receiving New Zealand Superannuation in residential care
- Person serving their sentence of imprisonment in a psychiatric hospital
- Person detained under a Public Protection Order
- Seasonal Assistance during short breaks
- Lockouts
- Clients with permanent residence or citizenship
- Permanent residence
- Tokelau, Niue and Cook Island clients
- Australian clients
- Clients without permanent residence or citizenship
- Unlawful residents and clients in New Zealand temporarily
- Extra help for clients without permanent residence
- Obligations
- Informing clients of their obligations
- Change in circumstances
- Work or work preparation obligations - partners
- Partners 65 years and over
- Partners with no children or youngest child 14+ years
- Partners with youngest child between 3 and 13 years
- Partners with youngest dependent child aged under 3 years
- Informing partners of their obligations
- Setting appropriate activities for partners
- Reporting progress
- Rehabilitation - partners
- Good and sufficient reason not meeting work or work preparation obligations
- Work preparation obligations - partners
- Work obligations - partners
- Suitable employment
- Meeting job search requirements
- Partners undertaking voluntary work
- Exemptions - partners
- Table of Exemptions
- Caring for a child under 3 years who is not their dependent child
- Caring for a child or foster child with special needs
- Caring full-time for person with health condition, injury or disability
- Court imposed conditions
- Family violence
- Home schooling a dependent child
- In approved full-time training
- In approved study
- Pregnant 27 weeks or earlier if complications
- Unable to meet work preparation obligations due to health condition, injury or disability
- Would qualify for Supported Living Payment - health condition, injury or disability or totally blind
- Would qualify for Jobseeker Support - health condition, injury or disability
- Employment trial period of up to 90 days
- Obligations failures - partners
- Good and sufficient reason before initiating an obligations failure
- Disputes and Reviews of an obligations failure
- Effect of financial sanctions on assistance
- Paying other assistance during a sanction
- Counting previous obligations failures
- Failing more than one obligation at the same time
- Failing a social obligation
- When the sanction is imposed
- Sanctions for single clients without dependent children
- Sanctions for couples without dependent children - one person fails their obligations
- Sanctions for a couple without dependent children - both fail their obligations
- Sanctions for couples with dependent children - one person fails their obligations
- Payments to the non-sanctioned client
- Clients with dependent children - 50% protection
- Sanctions for young partners
- Sanctions for couples where one person is youth money managed
- Couple, young partner is youth money managed and fails youth activity obligations, no dependent children
- Couple, young partner is youth money managed, primary client has work obligations, no dependent children (primary client fails)
- Couple, young partner is youth money managed, primary client has work obligations, no dependent children, both fail
- Couple, young partner is youth money managed, primary client has work obligations, dependent children, young partner fails
- Couple, young partner is youth money managed, primary client has work obligations, dependent children, both fail
- Effect of sanctions on assistance for young partners
- Non-financial sanctions
- Money Management
- Community Work Experience
- Criteria for Community Work Experience
- Determining whether Community Work Experience is appropriate
- Two-week search period
- Period of Community Work Experience
- Five-day verification window
- Commencement of position
- Suitability of position and organisation
- Good and sufficient reason for failure to find or complete Community Work Experience
- Non-compliance for Community Work Experience
- Determining when a partner became non-compliant
- Report Job Search
- Criteria for Report Job Search
- Determining whether Report Job Search is appropriate
- Job-search activities must be reasonable steps towards employment
- Period of Report Job Search
- Verification of evidence at end of 4-week period
- Good and sufficient reason for failure to complete Report Job Search
- Non-compliance for Report Job Search
- Determining when a partner became non-compliant
- Upskilling
- Criteria for Upskilling
- Determining whether Upskilling is appropriate
- Suitability of employment-related training or course
- Period of Upskilling
- Verification of evidence at end of 4-week period
- Good and sufficient reason for failure to complete Upskilling
- Non-compliance for Upskilling
- Determining when a client became non-compliant
- Recompliance
- Drug test obligations
- Referrals to jobs with drug test requirements
- Drug test job referral not suitable
- Partner has failed a screening drug test
- Training providers requiring a drug test
- Employers requiring pre-employment drug tests
- Reimbursement to employers and debt recovery
- Types of drug tests and standards
- Effect of certain drugs
- Work with contracted service provider obligation
- Work ability assessment obligation
- Social obligations
- Enrolment with a primary health care provider
- Enrolment and attendance at a recognised early childhood education programme
- Up to date with core Well Child/Tamariki Ora checks
- Enrolled in and attending school
- Monitoring compliance with social obligations
- All reasonable steps to meet social obligations
- Regular engagement and support process
- Client is meeting their social obligations
- Client's situation changes during regular engagement and support
- Failure to attend interviews or make contact about social obligations
- Failure to comply following regular engagement and support
- Good and sufficient reasons for failing to comply with a social obligation
- Overview of social obligations according to age of the child
- Youth activity obligations
- Inform young partner of their activity obligations
- Young partner without children
- Young partner with dependent child
- Deciding education, training and work-based learning activities
- Approved budgeting programme activity
- Earning incentive payments
- Report to service provider or Work and Income on progress
- Youth money management activity
- Parenting obligations
- Exemptions for young partners
- Full or partial exemptions (young partners)
- Family violence (young partners)
- Young partner would qualify for Supported Living Payment - health condition, injury or disability or totally blind
- Caring for a child with special needs (young partners)
- Caring for foster child under 12 months old (young partners)
- Caring full-time for a spouse or partner with a health condition, injury or disability (young partners)
- Young partner would qualify for Jobseeker Support - health condition, injury or disability
- Court imposed conditions (young partners)
- Table of exemptions for young partners
- Youth activity obligations failures
- Conditions of grant
- Commencement date
- Non-entitlement period for 13 weeks
- Voluntary unemployment or dismissal for misconduct
- Grade three sanction or job refusal failure - 13 week non-entitlement period
- Effect of 13-week non-entitlement - couple wishes to change primary status
- Effect of a non-entitlement period on financial assistance
- Financial assistance during non-entitlement period
- Payment
- Charging income
- Charging income - caring for New Zealand Superannuation or Veteran's Pension partner
- Client in hospital
- Partner not qualified
- Partner not receiving a benefit
- Youth money management
- In-hand allowance
- Factors to consider when recommending payment distribution between payment cards and in-hand allowance
- Incentive payments
- Payment process for a young partner
- Extra help and other payments
- Family tax credit
- Opting out of youth money management
- Earning the right to receive payment directly
- Continued compliance with their obligations
- Assessed as financially competent
- Returned to youth money management
- Method of payment
- Redirection for young partners
- Special rates - residential parole
- Maximum rates - caring for a person
- Maximum rates - caring for New Zealand Superannuation or Veteran's Pension partner
- Payment rate - Permanently and severely restricted for work
- Non residentially qualified for Supported Living Payment
- Not lawfully resident or present for youth support payments
- IRD number for client or partner who is apportioned assistance
- Bank account
- Changes and Reviews - Emergency Benefit
- Absence from New Zealand
- Permanent absence
- Obligation to advise of departure from New Zealand
- Partner with work or work preparation obligations or an exemption
- Partners of a main beneficiary who have youth activity obligations
- Approved travel reasons
- Length of travel for an approved travel reason
- Permitted travel reasons
- Job interviews or follow up on a job prospect
- Absent from New Zealand more than 28 days in any 52 week period
- Overseas medical treatment
- Calculating the period of absence
- Payment when client or partner absent from New Zealand
- Client or partner remains in New Zealand
- Ending payment for partner who can travel for any reason (within 28 day maximum)
- Ending payment for client who needs an approved reason to travel (within 28 day maximum)
- Client not returned due to an unforeseeable event (within 28 day maximum)
- Client left New Zealand and reason for travel changes (within 28 day maximum)
- Child absent
- Action on return to New Zealand
- Examples of applying the Absence from New Zealand policy
- Change of address
- Child changes
- Dependent child
- Birth of a child
- Effect on benefit
- Change in age
- Child applies for a benefit in their own right
- Child comes into care
- Child income
- Child leaves care
- Child leaves sole parents care suddenly
- Child leaves school
- Child starts work
- Carer arrangements
- Death of a child
- Financially independent
- In the care of Oranga Tamariki
- Gets a Student Allowance
- Gets a Student Loan
- Shared care
- Split care
- Temporary care
- Verification from Internal Affairs
- Client becomes sick
- Death of a client
- Death of a single client
- Death of a client with a partner or child
- Dependent partner dies - ongoing assistance for client
- Terminal benefit payments to surviving person or person caring for the children
- Deciding if surviving person would be better off getting terminal benefit or another benefit
- Client dies - ongoing assistance for surviving partner
- Ongoing assistance for dependent children
- Terminal benefit rate
- Client dies before benefit is granted or reviewed
- Debt recovery from arrears or terminal benefit
- Verification
- Deductions
- Hospitalisation
- Imprisonment
- Mandatory Review for Emergency Benefit
- Partner donates a kidney or liver tissue
- Person being cared for has changes
- Qualifies for another benefit
- Review of Annual Income
- Study
- Taxation
- IRD number for partner who is not apportioned assistance
- Absence from New Zealand
