Emergency Maintenance Allowance : Contents
- Introduction
- Qualifications
- Annual closedown periods
- Single and caring for a child not their own
- Unpaid during break in employment
- Sole parents who are 16 to 19 years old
- Split care arrangements
- Additional conditions of grant
- Time limits on grant of Emergency Benefit
- Age
- Dependent child
- Client's circumstances
- Hardship criteria
- Residence
- Obligations
- Informing clients of their obligations
- Change in circumstances
- Social obligations
- Enrolment with a primary health care provider
- Enrolment and attendance at a recognised early childhood 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
- 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
- Work with a contracted service provider obligation
- Work ability assessment obligation
- Obligations failures
- Good and sufficient reason before initiating an obligations failure
- Disputes and reviews of an obligations failure
- Counting previous obligations failures
- Failing more than one obligation at the same time
- Failing a social obligation
- When the sanction is imposed
- Clients with dependent children - 50% protection
- Non-financial sanctions
- Money Management
- 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
- Recompliance and Upskilling
- Recompliance and change of circumstances
- Recompliance for social obligation failures
- Recompliance social obligations failure (Grade 1 and 2)
- Social obligations recompliance (13 week non-entitlement period)
- Recomplying more than one failure
- Recompliance when subjected to Money Management
- Recompliance (13 week non-entitlement period)
- Unable to recomply
- Commencement date
- Payment
- Changes and Reviews - Emergency Maintenance Allowance
- Absence from New Zealand
- Permanent absence
- Obligation to advise of departure from New Zealand
- Approved travel reasons
- Overseas medical treatment
- Calculating the period of absence
- Payment when client absent from New Zealand
- 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
- Change in age
- 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
- 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
- Deductions
- Client donates a kidney or liver tissue
- Hospitalisation
- Imprisonment
- Mandatory Review for Emergency Maintenance Allowance
- Qualifies for another benefit
- Review of Annual Income
- Taxation
- Absence from New Zealand
