Supported Living Payment : Contents
Child changes
The number of dependent children in a Supported Living Payment client's care and any change to the circumstance of a child can affect:
- the basic rate of benefit payable
- the rate of family tax credit
- payment of Best Start tax credit
- the rate of extra help payable and
- the obligations of the partner (if any)
Including a child in Supported Living Payment
For a child to be included in a client's Supported Living Payment 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 Childs Benefit (instead of having the child included in their Supported Living Payment). 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 Supported Living Payment.
For more information see:
- Dependent child
- Deciding ordinarily resident
- Effect of child changes on benefit
- Best Start tax credit Child turns 3
- Birth of a child
- Change in age
- Child absence from New Zealand
- Child applies for a benefit in its own right
- Child income
- Child leaves care
- Child leaves school
- Child leaves sole parents care suddenly
- Child starts work
- Child comes into care
- Carer arrangements
- Death of a child
- Financially independent
- In the care of Oranga Tamariki
- Imprisonment Parent in prison
- Gets a Student Allowance
- Gets a Student Loan
- Shared care
- Split care
- Best Start tax credit Shared care
- Temporary care
- Verification from Internal Affairs
Legislation
- Beneficiary must notify change of circumstances section 113 Social Security Act 2018
- Discretionary review of entitlement to, or rate of, benefit granted subpart 3 part 6, Social Security Act 2018
