Winter Energy Payments and Confirming your Circumstances - a review

This review was commissioned by MSD to understand why some New Zealand Superannuation (NZ Superannuation) and Veteran's Pension clients had their Winter Energy Payments (WEP) suspended, and to examine other issues that arose during the introduction of mandatory Confirming Your Circumstances (CYC) reviews.

Report

Winter Energy Payment and Confirming your Circumstances – a review (PDF 619.07KB)

Supporting information

Media release
Briefing – Mandatory reviews (Confirming your Circumstances) and Winter Energy Payment – 16 August 2026 (PDF 1.77MB)
Social Assistance Legislation (Accommodation Supplement and Income-related Rent) and Social Security (Mandatory Reviews) Amendment Bill
Social Security (Mandatory Reviews) Amendment Regulations 2025 Cabinet paper
Work and Income

Note: The documents published here have been reviewed under the Official Information Act 1982, and appropriate redactions have been applied where information is withheld in accordance with the Act.