Young Parent Payment : Contents

• Introduction
• Qualifications
  • Age
    • Young person turns 20 years old
      • Must receive payment for six months
      • Chooses to remain on Young Parent Payment past 20 years of age
  • Dependent child
    • Child not living at home
    • Child to be included
    • Dependent children, young parents and the child's parent or step parent examples
  • Single young people
    • Parents earn less than Family Tax Credit cut-off point
  • Young people who are in a relationship
  • Residence
    • Clients from overseas
    • Deciding ordinarily resident
    • Proof of residence
      • Immigration status and supporting documents
  • Two years residence
    • Resident in New Zealand
    • Calculating the period of residence
      • Working overseas and paying New Zealand tax on earnings 
      • Permanent residence
      • Family Stream
      • Skilled/Business Stream
      • Change in personal resources
        • Definite offer of employment
        • Financial support from a sponsor
        • Personal cash assets
      • International/Humanitarian Stream
        • Refugee quota
        • Refugee Family Support Category
        • Pacific Access Category
        • Samoan Quota Scheme
      • Victims of family violence
      • Unlawful residence
      • Refugees and protected persons
      • Granting on grounds of hardship
      • Hardship criteria
      • Cash assets
      • Hardship exceptional circumstances
  • Parental support gap
    • Definition of 'parents'
    • Unable to receive financial support from parents
      • Parents overseas
      • What is financial support?
      • Independent
      • Discharged from care
    • Family breakdown
      • Independent Assessment Provider
    • Cannot expect financial support from parents
      • When financial support is not expected
      • Unsupported Childs Benefit was paid
      • Examples of good and sufficient reason
  • Income criteria
  • Activity requirements
    • In or available for secondary education
    • In or available for approved training
    • In or available for tertiary education
    • In or available for work-based learning
    • Working part-time
• Obligations
  • Change in circumstances
  • Inform young person of their activity obligations
  • Youth activity obligations
  • Youth activity obligations
    • Youngest dependent child is aged under 12 months
      • Deciding if suitable place at Teen Parent Unit available
        • Special circumstances justifying delay in activity obligation
        • Teen Parent Unit
    • Deciding education, training and work-based learning activities
    • Secondary education
      • Definition of 'full-time'
        • Table of weeks for EFTS
    • Tertiary education
      • NCEA level 2 or equivalent or higher qualification
    • Approved training
      • Special regional training courses
      • Workplace/industry training
      • Youth Guarantee courses
    • Work-based learning
    • Developmental activities
      • Social rehabilitation programmes
    • Approved budgeting programme activity
    • Earning incentive payments
      • Capacity issues prevent a young person meeting their parenting obligations
      • Removing incentive payments
        • Examples of actions inconsistent with purpose
      • Incentive payments can continue
      • Restoring incentive payments
    • Report to service provider or Work and Income on progress
    • Youth money management activity
  • Parenting obligations
    • Approved parenting programme
    • Enrolment with a primary health care provider
    • Enrolment and attendance at Well Child visits
      • Well Child/Tamariki Ora services and checks
    • Ensuring child attends suitable childcare
  • Exemptions from activity obligations
    • Full or partial exemptions
    • Caring for a child with special needs
    • Caring for foster child under 12 months old
    • Caring full-time for a partner with a health condition, injury or disability
    • Court imposed conditions
    • Family violence
    • Recent bereavement of their partner
    • Recent separation from their partner
    • Would qualify for Jobseeker Support - health condition, injury or disability
    • Would qualify for Supported Living Payment - health condition, injury or disability
    • Table of exemptions
  • Activity obligations failures
    • Good and sufficient reason before initiating an activity obligations failure
    • Disputes and reviews of an activity obligations failure
      • The disputes process
        • Recording decisions on a dispute
    • Effect of sanctions on assistance
      • Paying other assistance during an activity obligations sanction
      • Counting previous activity obligations failures
        • Examples of transfers between benefits
      • When the sanction is imposed
    • Sanctions - 50% protection
      • Income abatement and 50% protection
      • Sanctions for sole parents
        • Definition of second and third failures
      • Sanctions for couples - one person fails
      • Sanctions for couples - both fail
        • Payment to the non-sanctioned partner
    • Recompliance (Grade 1 and 2)
      • Couple - both failed, one recomplies first
      • Sanctions and money management
    • Recompliance (13 week non-entitlement period)
      • Provisional benefit and end of non-entitlement period
      • Returning incentive payments after a sanction
    • Unable to recomply due to meeting the criteria for an exemption
• Commencement date
  • Severance payments
  • Redundancy payments
    • Delayed redundancy payments
    • Partner made redundant
  • Calculating the commencement date for couples
  • Retirement payments
    • Delayed retirement payments
  • Entitlement date
    • Employment ceased
    • Calculation of employment ceased
    • Average weekly income
    • Treatment of sick leave and annual leave
  • Twenty-eight day rule
  • Initial stand-down
    • Income from overseas
    • Number of dependent children
      • Orphans Benefit and Unsupported Childs Benefit
    • Employment during stand-down
      • Example of employment during the stand-down
    • Self-imposed stand-down
  • Initial stand-down procedure
  • No stand-down applies
    • Young person leaves Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre
    • Transfer between benefits
    • In a training course approved by the Ministry
    • Temporary employment
    • Prisoners
    • Enrolled in secondary education
    • Entering a refuge
  • Assistance during an initial stand-down and/or benefit application process
  • Assistance during a non-entitlement period
    • Assistance for partners
• Payment
  • Charging income
    • Weekly income example
    • Charging information share Child Support payments as income
    • Childcare cost income exemption
  • Youth money management
    • Redirection of Young Parent Payment
    • In-hand allowance
    • Factors to consider when recommending payment distribution between payment cards and in-hand allowance
    • Incentive payments
    • Payment process for single people
    • Payment process for couples
      • Example couple with one child
      • Example couple - one gets AS and TAS and the other FTC
    • Extra help and other payments
    • Family Tax Credit
    • Opting out of youth money management
    • Earning the right to receive payment directly
      • Continued compliance with their obligations
      • Assessed as financially competent
    • Returned to youth money management
    • Money left on payment card after youth money management ends
      • Paying money left on the payment card
      • Applying for hardship assistance with money on payment cards
      • Deducting debt from the funds
      • Third party application for funds
  • Method of payment
  • Young person in hospital
  • Young person's IRD number
  • Bank account
    • Credit union 
• Changes and Reviews Young Parent Payment
  • Absence from New Zealand
    • Permanent absence
    • Obligation to advise of departure from New Zealand
      • Paying a benefit when the client has not advised before departure
      • Backdating benefit to day after departure date
        • Contacting Work and Income as soon as the client reasonably could
        • Humanitarian reasons for backdating to day after departure
    • Client with youth activity obligations
    • Approved travel reasons
      • Permitted travel reasons
        • Essential travel
          • Definition of family member
      • Job interviews or follow up on a job prospect
        • Examples of job interviews and prospects overseas
        • Client obtains employment overseas
      • Absences that do not prevent client from meeting obligations
        • Client meeting their youth activity obligations
        • Young people not yet subject to obligation to be in education, training or work-based learning
        • Young people who are exempt from their youth activity obligations
      • Absent from New Zealand more than 28 days in any 52 week period
        • Paying for more than 28 days for an approved reason
          • Examples for paying more than 28 days for an approved reason
        • Paying for more than 28 days - delayed return
        • Paying for more than 28 days - receive support from family member residing overseas
          • Definition of 'support' from a family member residing overseas
          • Examples of paying for more than 28 days for obtaining family support
    • Overseas medical treatment
    • Calculating the period of absence
      • Examples of calculating absence from New Zealand
    • Payment when client absent from New Zealand
      • 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
      • Client does not return
    • Examples of applying the Absence from New Zealand Policy
  • Change in age
    • Must receive payment for six months
  • Change of activity
  • Change of address
  • Child changes
    • Dependent child
      • Child not living at home
      • Child should be included
      • Orphans or Unsupported Childs Benefit is being paid
    • Birth of a child
      • Date of review (including backdating)
      • Effect on benefit
    • Child comes into care
    • Child leaves care
    • Child leaves care suddenly
    • Carer arrangements
    • Death of a child
    • In the care of Oranga Tamariki
      • Discharged from Oranga Tamariki care
        • Definition of discharged from Oranga Tamariki care
      • Oranga Tamariki order in place
    • Shared care
      • Decision guidelines for shared care
    • Split care
    • Temporary care
    • Verification from Internal Affairs
  • Death of a client
    • Death of a client with a partner or child
      • On going assistance for surviving partner
    • Terminal benefit rate
    • Client dies before benefit granted or reviewed
    • Debt recovery from arrears or terminal benefit
    • Verification
  • Deductions
    • Priority for deductions
    • Ministry of Social Development debt repayments
    • Debt Repayment Orders
    • Court attachment orders
      • Protected earnings rate
      • Court request for information
    • Student Loans
    • Inland Revenue deduction notices
  • Client donates a kidney or liver tissue
  • Hospitalisation
    • Date payment should be reduced
      • Paying a higher rate
      • Guidelines for paying a higher rate
    • Income
    • Effect on Extra Help
    • On leave from hospital
      • On leave for 28 days or less
      • On leave for more than 28 days
      • Weekend leave
    • Discharge from hospital
    • Private hospital and homes
  • Imprisonment
    • Definition of imprisonment
    • Clients with a partner
      • Decision guidelines - clients with a partner
        • SWIFTT process to pay a partner
    • Sole parents
      • Decision guidelines - sole parents
      • Rate of payment - sole parents
        • Examples - sole parents
    • Remanded in custody
    • Detention in or transfer to a psychiatric hospital
    • Home Detention
    • Residential Parole
    • Release from prison
    • Release on bail
  • Qualifies for another benefit
  • Reapplication for Young Parent Payment
  • Returns to live with parents
  • Partner's IRD number
    • Non-tax resident partner's IRD number not required
  • Taxation
    • Tax codes
    • Under and overpayments
    • Tax Certificates
  • Treatment of income
    • Income test
      • Example of income assessment
    • Calculating the benefit rate
      • Recording income
    • Income change
      • Income from employment
      • Period over which to charge income
        • Example of overlapping income
      • Estimated income
      • Income for a past period
      • Previous tax year
      • Income stops
      • Income reduces the benefit to a 'nil' rate
    • Exemption for severe disablement
      • Guidelines - exemption for severe disablement
      • Amount of income exemption
    • Effect of income on Extra help
  • Young person with a health condition

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