Dear Ceri Jenkins,

Thank you for your email received 7 April 2014, under the Official Information Act 1982. Your request has been forwarded to the appropriate officials at National office to respond. You may expect a response to be sent to you as soon as possible.
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: cd jenkins [mailto:[OIA #1594 email]]
Sent: Friday, 4 April 2014 7:57 p.m.
To: Info (MSD)
Subject: Official Information Act request - breakdown of Statistics regarding beneficiaries overseas travel

Dear Ministry of Social Development,

Paula Bennet announced this week that 21000 beneficiaries have had overseas ''holidays'' . I would like to know the figures regarding what catagory of benefit these people were receiving. Were superannuitants included in these figures?

Yours faithfully,

C.D Jenkins

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Dear Ceri

 

Thank you for your email received 7 April 2014, under the Official
Information Act 1982, requesting:

 

·         Which benefit categories did the 21,000 beneficiaries fall into
who had their benefit suspended because they travelled overseas without
permission?

·         Were superannuitants included in these figures?

 

Your request for the benefit categories which the 21,000 beneficiaries
fell into is refused under section 18(d) of the Act on the basis that this
information will soon be publicly available through the Parliament website
at the following link:

 

[1]http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/busine...

 

The figures did not include superannuitants.

 

Kind regards,

 

Official and Parliamentary Information

Ministry of Social Development

 

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