Qualifications

For client’s to qualify for Special Portability of their New Zealand Superannuation or Veteran's Pension, they must:

• qualify for New Zealand Superannuation or Veterans Pension and
• be resident and present in New Zealand when they apply or
• if intending to live in the Cook Islands, Niue or Tokelau be resident and present in one of these countries when they apply and
• be living in a Pacific country when each payment is made and
• not residing in a country New Zealand has a social security reciprocal agreement with, or a general portability country

Note if a client qualified for New Zealand Superannuation or Veteran's Pension using one of the social security reciprocal agreements, and they are intending to leave New Zealand for more than 26 weeks, we need to check whether they can get this payment under Special Portability in that country.