Youth Payment : Contents
- Introduction
- Qualifications
- Age
- Single young people
- Young people who are in a relationship
- Residence
- 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
- International/Humanitarian Stream
- 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
- Income criteria
- Activity requirements
- Obligations
- Change in circumstances
- Inform young person of their activity obligations
- Youth activity obligations
- Deciding education, training and work-based learning activities
- Secondary education
- Tertiary education
- Approved training
- Work-based learning
- Developmental activities
- Approved budgeting programme activity
- Earning incentive payments
- Report to service provider or Work and Income on progress
- Youth money management activity
- Exemptions from activity obligations
- Full or partial exemptions
- Caring full-time for a partner with a health condition, injury or disability (young partners)
- 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
- Effect of sanctions on assistance
- Recompliance (Grade 1 and 2)
- Recompliance (13 week non-entitlement period)
- Unable to recomply due to meeting the criteria for an exemption
- Commencement date
- Severance payments
- Redundancy payments
- Calculating the commencement date for couples
- Retirement payments
- Entitlement date
- Twenty-eight day rule
- Initial stand-down
- Initial stand-down procedure
- No stand-down applies
- Assistance during an initial stand-down and/or benefit application process
- Assistance during a non-entitlement period
- Payment
- Charging income
- Youth money management
- Redirection of Youth 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
- Extra help
- Opting out of youth money management
- Earning the right to receive payment directly
- Returned to youth money management
- Money left on payment card after youth money management ends
- Method of payment
- Young person in hospital
- Young person's IRD number
- Bank account
- Changes and Reviews Youth Payment
- Absence from New Zealand
- Permanent absence
- Obligation to advise of departure from New Zealand
- Client with youth activity obligations
- Approved travel reasons
- Permitted travel reasons
- Absent from New Zealand more than 28 days in any 52 week period
- Overseas medical treatment
- Calculating the period of absence
- Payment when client absent from New Zealand
- Action on return to New Zealand
- Examples of applying the Absence from New Zealand Policy
- Change in age
- Change of activity
- Change of address
- Death of a client
- Deductions
- Client donates a kidney or liver tissue
- Hospitalisation
- Imprisonment
- Qualifies for another benefit
- Reapplication for Youth Payment
- Returns to live with parents
- Partner's IRD number
- Taxation
- Treatment of income
- Young person with a health condition
- Absence from New Zealand
