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Unsupported Child Benefit

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From: M.R.M.

Dear Ministry of Social Development,

Please provide me with the following information:

1. A copy or copies of the legislation - laws and regulations - relevant to the Unsupported Child Benefit.

2. A copy or copies of the policies, procedures, rules, guidelines, etc. - all non-laws and non-regulations requested above in other words - relevant to the Unsupported Child Benefit.

3. A copy or copies of the processes that must be used to evaluate and approve or decline a second Unsupported Child Benefit application when the first Unsupported Child Benefit application was approved and payments made for more than 2 years, and the child left the applicant's home but returned more than 1 year later causing a stoppage of the payments to be requested by the applicant then a second application to be made and submitted to WINZ ... with all of the original application personal and other information remaining unchanged in the interim period other than the child's age. (What I am needing here is a copy or copies of a directive or other sort of instruction to WINZ staff how they are required to process a second Unsupported Child Benefit application when they already have all of the relevant information on record from a first Unsupported Child Benefit application).

Yours faithfully,

M.R.M.

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Tēnā koe M.R.M.

Thank you for your email received 7 August 2025, under the Official Information Act 1982. Your request has been forwarded to the appropriate officials at National Office to respond.

The information you have requested may contain the names and contact details of our staff. Please let us know by 12 August 2025 whether you require these names and contact details. We will need to consult our staff before deciding whether we can release this information, and this will take a bit more time. If we do not hear from you, we will assume that you do not require staff names and contact details.

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Official Information Team | Ministerial and Executive Services
Ministry of Social Development

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Ministry of Social Development

Attachment OIA Decision letter M.R.M.pdf
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Attachment 01 Orphan s Benefit and Unsupported Child s Benefit Procedures Doogle.pdf
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Attachment 02 Unsupported Child s Benefit Case manager guidelines for interviews Doogle.pdf
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Attachment 03 Orphans Benefit and Unsupported Child s Benefit HIYA.pdf
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Attachment 04 Orphan s Benefit and Unsupported Child HIYA with CSR Process.pdf
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Tçnâ koe M.R.M,

 

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Ministry of Social Development

 

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