April 2021 Responses to OIA requests

20210401 - Request to know stats on how many Community Services card holders there are in the Queenstown Lakes district (PDF 1)

20210401 - Request to know the average amount MSD spends on housing per person per week in the capital (PDF 892.42KB)

20210406 - Request to know the DA provision to all working aged beneficiaries and dependents by ethnicity and by service centre summarised by region and Sep quarter 2020 and 2019 (PDF 1.36MB)

20210406 - (Appendix A) Request to know the DA provision to all working aged beneficiaries and dependents by ethnicity and by service centre summarised by region and Sep quarter 2020 and 2019 (Excel 31.61KB)

20210406 - (Appendix B) Request to know the DA provision to all working aged beneficiaries and dependents by ethnicity and by service centre summarised by region and Sep quarter 2020 and 2019 (Excel 32.39KB)

20210406 - (Appendix c) Request to know the DA provision to all working aged beneficiaries and dependents by ethnicity and by service centre summarised by region and Sep quarter 2020 and 2019 (Excel 30.66KB)

20210406 - Request for information on the housing register by demographics (PDF 916.47KB)

20210407 - Request to know how many children have been in emergency accommodation for longer than 3 months and in which regions and what ages are the children staying in emergency accommodation (data below) (PDF 853.94KB)

20210408 - Request for a copy of all advice and analyses MSD have produced regarding the extension to Flexi-Wage scheme announced by the Government on Thursday 11 February 2021 (Part 1) (PDF 43.85MB)

20210408 - Request for a copy of all advice and analyses MSD have produced regarding the extension to Flexi-Wage scheme announced by the Government on Thursday 11 February 2021 (part 2) (PDF 35.07MB)

20210408 - Request to know how many people in the Queenstown Lakes District have been granted 5K for a work grant from WINZ in the last 12 months and two years and the total amounts granted (PDF 973.88KB)

20210409 - Request a copy of reports in regard to Covid19 that have been sent to the Minister of MSD (part 1) (PDF 6.32MB)

20210409 - Request a copy of reports in regard to Covid19 that have been sent to the Minister of MSD (part 2) (PDF 33.6MB)

20210409 - Request a copy of reports in regard to Covid19 that have been sent to the Minister of MSD (part 3) (PDF 27.41MB)

20210409 - Request a copy of reports in regard to Covid19 that have been sent to the Minister of MSD (part 4) (PDF 22.6MB)

20210409 - Request to know how many people have applied for the $5K to Work grant and have had their application approved since Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 and how many people had to pay the money back (PDF 1.53MB)

20210412 - A list of every emergency housing accommodation provider in the Wellington region , broken down by area and year and the number of people in Wellington city in emergency housing (PDF 13.6MB)

20210412 - Request to know in the December years from 2012 to 2020 how many Sole Parent Support or EMA recipients were aged 16-19 and the ethnic breakdown of Young Parent Payment clients (PDF 2.82MB)

20210412 - Request to know the total amount of money paid in EHSNG and the total value of payments made by MSD to EHA suppliers claiming costs for damage or loss for each quarter for the period 2017 until today (PDF 592.92KB)

20210413 - Request a copy of any documentation that defines the maximum available limit of Temporary Additional Support payments through WINZ (PDF 470.68KB)

20210413 - Request to know how many people with disabilities are on the waitlist for housing and the total number on the waitlist (PDF 1.06MB)

20210413 - Request to know how many wage subsidy applications were auto-approved (PDF 476.86KB)

20210413 - Request to know the number of male and female recipients of emergency housing since 2014 to present date across each of the area allocations covered by Accommodation Supplement (PDF 480.93KB)

20210413 - Request to know the cost benefit analysis MSD have done on increasing Accommodation Supplement to reduce or eliminate the need for emergency housing (PDF 301.12KB)

20210413 - The total sum of money paid by the NZ Government to the AUS Government from 1999, 2000 to present and the amounts paid to the AUS Government to compensate it for welfare services it provides to NZ residents in AUS (PDF 1.19MB)

20210414 - Request for information on charging for OIA requests from 1 Jan 2020 to Dec 1 2020 (PDF 415.73KB)

20210414 - Request to know how many cases was prosecution contemplated and in those cases what was the Ministry's basis for taking a decision not to prosecute (PDF 390.36KB)

20210416 - Request to know how many MSD clients are currently being housed in student accommodation around the country, which education institutes and how many children are involved (PDF 377.5KB)

20210416 - Request to know the MSD contact centre monthly service target level in 2021, the number of unanswered and abandoned calls and how many staff have resigned and have been hired since Mar 2020 (PDF 557.52KB)

20210419 - Request a copy of all correspondence between MSD and WINZ regarding data matching between MSD and IRD from 1 March 2020 to present date Part 1 (PDF 6.91MB)

20210419 - Request a copy of all correspondence between MSD and WINZ regarding data matching between MSD and IRD from 1 March 2020 to present date Part 2 (PDF 22.81MB)

20210419 - Request a copy of all correspondence between MSD and WINZ regarding data matching between MSD and IRD from 1 March 2020 to present date Part 3 (PDF 30.91MB)

20210419 - Request a copy of all correspondence between MSD and WINZ regarding data matching between MSD and IRD from 1 March 2020 to present date Part 4 (PDF 34.4MB)

20210419 - Request a copy of any meeting notes and communications in regard to the change of Porirua to Area 1 for the purposes of calculating Accommodation Supplement (PDF 299.29KB)

20210419 - Request to know the figures relating benefit sanctions applied against beneficiaries with outstanding warrants to arrest broken down with and without children (PDF 5.59MB)

20210420 - Request a copy of a briefing for Minister Tariana Turia prepared by the Ministerial Advisory Group on Family Violence and the Maori and Pacific Reference Groups (PDF 11.69MB)

20210420 - Request a copy of any advice, analysis or recommendations provided to any Government Minister on what current employment initiatives could be introduced to help 1 (PDF 7.7MB)

20210420 - Request a copy of any advice, analysis or recommendations provided to any Government Minister on what current employment initiatives could be introduced to help 2 (PDF 36.83MB)

20210420 - Request a copy of any advice, analysis or recommendations provided to any Government Minister on what current employment initiatives could be introduced to help 3 (PDF 15.07MB)

20210420 - Request a copy of any advice, analysis or recommendations provided to any Government Minister on what current employment initiatives could be introduced to help 4 (PDF 6.61MB)

20210420 - Request a list of all the current places used by MSD for Emergency Housing in Wellington CBD (PDF 3.87MB)

20210420 - Request to know how many people have been declined food grants and advances for any other assistance in the last two years (PDF 465.48KB)

20210420 - Request to know the aspects of the core policy in relation to the assessment of chargeable income when assessing clients for financial assistance from MSD (PDF 775.78KB)

20210420 - Request to know the name of MSD offices with no toilets, the distance to the nearest public toilet for MSD clients to access and information regarding the renting of MSD offices (PDF 2.36MB)

20210420 - Request to know the number of MSD clients in Queenstown Lakes accessing MSD provided counselling services with the number of counselling sessions being accessed per client over the phone, online or face to face (PDF 1.23MB)

20210421 - Request a list of all the emergency housing providers in the Wairarapa region (PDF 1.41MB)

20210421 - Request to know the numbers of people who have been placed in emergency housing in the wider Wellington city area since 2010 (PDF 3.73MB)

20210422 - Request a copy of the NZSL Week 2020 report (PDF 2.09MB)

20210422 - Request a list of all emergency providers in the Wellington region (PDF 3.32MB)

20210422 - Request for information in relation to the percentage of recipients of AS, TAS, DA, CDA and all materials used to train staff in regard to discretion and the processing of SNG and AP of benefit applications (PDF 2.53MB)

20210422 - Request to know how many returnees have claimed or are claiming a benefit since returning despite not having paid tax in NZ (PDF 1.16MB)

20210423 - Request a copy of all documents regarding the implementation of the wage subsidy. The process of who prepared the Declaration forms and documents relating to decisions made about the wage subsidy public interest test (PDF 13.93MB)

20210423 - Request a list of overseas pensions that are not deducted from NZ Super under the provisions of the Direct Deduction Policy and the exact date of the Social Security Agreement with South Korea (PDF 7.11MB)

20210423 - Request to know what was the average speed of answer for Studylink calls in Jan 2021 and Feb 2021 (PDF 186.17KB)

20210427 - Request a copy of the organisation structure chart with the names and positions down to tier 5 (PDF 8.88MB)

20210428 - Request a full historical and current documentation recorded by the NZSL Board, a full report report of the strategic plan for Deaf Maori and a response to the reviews about investigating the NZSL Dictionary (PDF 573.78KB)

20210428 - Request for a breakdown of the type of housing required by people on the housing and transfer register for Waitomo, Otoroangha and Taumarunui districts (PDF 1.66MB)

20210429 - Request a copy of all relevant information held by MSD which recommend against funding or proceeding with an initiative that could reasonably be regarded as a pre-employment initiative within the last 24 months (PDF 2.3MB)

20210429 - Request the total dollar amount of emergency benefit support provided to temporary visa holders due to the Covid-19 pandemic (PDF 254.66KB)

20210429 - Request to know detailed information on the Accommodation Benefit which was paid to those renting privately before 1 April 1992 (PDF 257.44KB)

20210429 - Request to know how many Super Gold card holders are in Otago and Dunedin (PDF 316.44KB)

20210430 - Request a full copy of the current investigation unit training package and what types of legal training and background MSD fraud investigators have (PDF 5.32MB)

20210430 - 2/2 Request a full copy of the current investigation unit training package and what types of legal training and background MSD fraud investigators have (PDF 2.36MB)

20210430 - Request to know how many Maori received the funeral grant for 2019 and 2020 (PDF 4.13MB)

April 2021 Responses to OIA requests

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