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From 20 November, new clients applying for ongoing financial support through MyMSD can choose to verify their identity online, using Identity Check.
A Lower Hutt Jobs and Skills Hub has now opened to the public at 9 Kings Crescent. Anyone looking for employment is invited to visit.
A man has been sent to jail for more than two years after he created a company to defraud taxpayers of more than $120,000 through the COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme.
A Katikati woman has been sentenced to seven months' home detention after admitting five charges of dishonest use of a document in connection with the COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme.
The Pacific Employment Action Plan Fund for programmes to help build prosperous Pacific communities, is now open for expressions of interest.
A woman has been sentenced to three months’ community detention for fraudulently claiming about $7000 in COVID-19 wage subsidies.
