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Benefit Claimants by 2017 Area Unit for December 2025

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From: Dot

Dear Ministry of Social Development,

Please could you provide data sets specifying the number of people claiming the following types of benefits by 2017 Area Unit Boundary:

Job Seeker Support (JS Related)
Sole Parent Support (SPS Related)
Supported Living Payment (SLP Related)
Other benefits

for the quarter ending December 2025

We understand that benefit claimant figures lower than 5 will be suppressed as per the criteria of section 9(2)(a) of the Official Information Act and stipulations of the Privacy Act 1993.

Could you kindly send the billing information to myself and [email address]

Kind regards,

Dot

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Ministry of Social Development

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Tēnā koe Dot,

Thank you for your email received 1 December 2025, under the Official Information Act 1982. Your request has been forwarded to the appropriate officials at National Office to respond.

Please note that over the holiday period, there are three weeks that are not classified as working days. In accordance with Section 2 of the Official Information Act 1982, this period is 25 December 2024 to 15 January 2025 (inclusive). As such, OIA requests received on or after 27 November 2024 may take longer than you might expect. For more information on the latest date you can expect a response, please find the OIA Calculator on the Ombudsman website here: http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/agenc....
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Ministry of Social Development

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