Sole Parent Support : Contents
- Introduction
- Qualifications
- Verification of relationship status
- Client receiving youth support payments
- Residence
- Two years residence
- Reciprocal agreements
- Determining who is a parent
- Living apart
- Partner in prison
- Shared care
- Split care
- Court ordered split care arrangement
- No court order for split care arrangement
- Determining whether a care arrangement is sanctioned by the Family Court
- Privacy Act implications
- Assistance for the parent not qualified for Sole Parent Support
- When to consider Emergency Maintenance Allowance for split care
- Dependent child
- Obligations
- Informing clients of their obligations
- Change in circumstances
- Work or work preparation obligations
- Work preparation obligations
- Work obligations
- Suitable employment
- Studying or training on Sole Parent Support
- Meeting job search requirements
- Clients undertaking voluntary work
- Exemptions
- Full or partial exemptions
- Table of Exemptions
- Caring for a child or foster child with special needs
- Caring for a child under 3 years who is not their dependent child
- Caring full-time for a person with a health condition, injury or disability
- Court imposed conditions
- Family violence
- Home schooling a dependent child
- In approved full-time training
- In approved study before subject to work obligations
- In full-time study at level four or above
- Orphans Benefit or Unsupported Childs Benefit under 3 years
- Pregnant 27 weeks or earlier if complications
- Recent bereavement of spouse or partner
- Recent separation from a spouse or partner
- Unable to meet work preparation obligations due to a health condition, injury or disability
- Would qualify for Jobseeker Support - health condition, injury or disability
- Would qualify for Supported Living Payment - health condition, injury or disability, or total blindness
- Employment trial period of up to 90 days
- Limited employment locations
- Drug test obligations
- Referrals to jobs with drug test requirements
- Drug test job referral not suitable
- Client 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 a contracted service provider obligation
- Work ability assessment obligation
- Social obligations
- Enrolment with a primary health care provider
- Enrolment and attendance at early childhood programme
- Enrolment and attendance at Well Child visits
- Enrolled in and attending school
- Monitoring compliance with social obligations
- All reasonable steps to meet social obligations
- Regular engagement and support process
- Overview of social obligations according to age of the child
- Obligations failures
- Good and sufficient reason before initiating an obligations failure
- Disputes and reviews of an obligations failure
- Effect of sanctions on assistance
- 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
- 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 client 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 client 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
- Recompliance and Report Job Search
- Recompliance and Upskilling
- Recompliance and change of circumstances
- Recompliance for work obligation failures
- Recompliance for social obligation failures
- Recompliance social obligations failure (Grade 1 and 2)
- Social obligations recompliance (13 week non-entitlement period)
- Recompliance for drug test obligation failures
- Drug test recompliance count
- Recomplying more than one failure
- Recompliance when subjected to Money Management
- Recompliance and Community Work Experience
- Recompliance (13 week non-entitlement period)
- Unable to recomply
- 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 a non-entitlement period on financial assistance
- Financial assistance during non-entitlement period
- Payment
- Reapplication process at 52 weeks
- Client does not need to complete the reapplication process
- Notice to reapply
- Completing the 52 week reapplication process
- Failing the reapplication process or applying as a new applicant
- Review of Decision - 52 week reapplication process
- Changes and Reviews - Sole Parent Support
- Absence from New Zealand
- Permanent absence
- Obligation to advise of departure from New Zealand
- Client with work or work preparation obligations or an exemption
- Approved travel reasons
- Overseas medical treatment
- Calculating the period of absence
- Payment when client absent from New Zealand
- Ending payment for client 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
- Change in age
- Youngest dependent child turns 14
- 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
- Qualifies for another benefit
- Review of Annual Income
- Study
- Taxation
- Absence from New Zealand
