Emergency Maintenance Allowance : Contents
Child changes
The number of dependent children in an Emergency Maintenance Allowance client's care and any change to the child's circumstances can affect:
- the rate of family tax credit payable
- payment of Best Start tax credit
- the rate of extra help payable
- the client's obligations and
- (in some situations) the client's eligibility to the benefit, for example, last child leaves care
Including a child in Emergency Maintenance Allowance
For a child to be included in a client's Emergency Maintenance Allowance the child must be a dependent child and generally ordinarily resident in New Zealand.
When the child is not the client's natural or adoptive child, the client may be able to get an Unsupported Child's Benefit (instead of having the child included in their Emergency Maintenance Allowance). This will mainly depend on the care arrangements.
Changes to a child's circumstances
Change to a dependent child's circumstances is generally going to affect the client's Emergency Maintenance Allowance.
For more information see:
- Dependent child
- Effect on benefit
- Birth of a child
- Change in age
- Absence from New Zealand Child absent
- Child applies for a benefit in their own right
- Child comes into care
- Child income
- Child leaves care
- Child leaves care suddenly
- Child leaves school
- Child starts work
- Carer arrangements
- Death of a child
- Financially independent
- In the care of Oranga Tamariki
- Parent in prison
- Gets a Student Allowance
- Gets a Student Loan
- Shared care
- Split care
- Temporary care
- Verification from Internal Affairs
- Core policy Ordinarily resident in New Zealand
