Responses to OIA requests October 2022

03/10/2022 - Information on benefits stopping once client has died or moved overseas and usual process for cancelling benefit (PDF 419.75KB)
03/10/2022 - Request for the list of places used for Emergency Housing in Southland region, and how many of these providers began their contracts with MSD in the past year (PDF 900.78KB)
05/10/2022 - Requesting information on issues around bank transfer fees incurred by NZ recipients of foreign pensions from countries that are not part of the Special Banking Option (PDF 471.85KB)
05/10/2022 - All costs relating to MSD's contribution to a NZ delegation to UN Convention on the rights of person with disabilities (PDF 162.24KB)
05/10/2022 - Requesting information on issues around bank transfer fees incurred by NZ recipients of foreign pensions from countries that are not part of the Special Banking Option (PDF 471.85KB)
07/10/2022 - All reports for 2022 titled COVID-19 Economic Supports: quarterly integrity update, and number of investigations initiated into Fraud since July 2021 (PDF 1.94MB)
10/10/2022 - Breakdown of how many residents have moved to EH in Rotorua from other parts of NZ, and total costs of EH in Rotorua including damaged, rent, security costs between 2017-2022 (PDF 1.02MB)
11/10/2022 - Request for number of on the housing register who receive the accommodation supplement while they wait for public housing, and amount of the supplement paid to those on the register (PDF 506.67KB)
11/10/2022 - Request for all correspondence during the Covid period 2021 and 2022 relating to New Zealand superannuation payments suspended (PDF 11.52MB)
12/10/2022 - Numerous questions on NEETs funding, regarding underspending, client breakdowns/statistics and provider information (PDF 276.86KB)
12/10/2022 - Numerous questions on NEETs funding, regarding underspending, client breakdowns/statistics and provider information [Data] (Excel 27.33KB)
12/10/2022 - Information on EH spent in Rotorua since 2020, moving from EH to rental and Accommodation Supplement paid for those rental properties (PDF 749.75KB)
13/10/2022 - All discussions with Ministers, budget bids, analysis and advice relating to the funding of the Office of the Children's Commissioner from 2010 - 2022 (PDF 128.5KB)
13/10/2022 - Numerous questions regarding funding received by Taumata Korero Collective (PDF 249.09KB)
14/10/2022 - Numerous questions regarding declaring additional income via MyMSD and issues with Jobseeker Benefit not being accurately adjusted (PDF 221.73KB)
17/10/2022 - How many COVID food parcels have been distributed in Hikurangi (PDF 471.33KB)
18/10/2022 - Requesting all relevant documentation regarding NZS recipients stranded in Australia not required to pay back debt and NZS Stranded in other countries are still required to repay debt (PDF 12.88MB)
18/10/2022 - Broad documentation published or documented by the WEAG, recommendations, consultations, discussions, analysis for welfare reform 1991 (PDF 847.13KB)
18/10/2022 - Broad documentation published or documented by the WEAG, recommendations, consultations, discussions, analysis for welfare reform 1991 [Proposals for Benefit Reform] (PDF 8.33MB)
18/10/2022 - Broad documentation published or documented by the WEAG, recommendations, consultations, discussions, analysis for welfare reform 1991 [Welfare that Works] (PDF 4.21MB)
19/10/2022 - Request for 9 reports (PDF 5.45MB)
19/10/2022 - The Ministry's workforce by Education and Ethnic Group, for the periods ranging from 1 July 2021 to 1 July 2022 (PDF 389.5KB)
19/10/2022 - The top 10 emergency housing motels/hotels across Nelson/Tasman in terms of spend since March 1 2020 (PDF 390.49KB)
19/10/2022 - The top 10 emergency housing motels_hotels across Nelson_Tasman in terms of spend since March 1 2020 [Data] (Excel 14.3KB)
19/10/2022 - Leave provisions for gender reassignment and affirmation (PDF 169.47KB)
19/10/2022 - How many clients have their NZ Super reduced because they also receive a Canadian government pension (CPP and/or OAS) (PDF 188.21KB)
20/10/2022 - Total amount per country and total overall where section 187-191 of the SSA has been applied to overseas pensions (PDF 245.82KB)
21/10/2022 - The number of applications received and number of people shortlisted and interviewed for the MSD Public Sector Boards (PDF 158.18KB)
25/10/2022 - Maximum possible entitlement for Student Allowance, Living Costs and Accommodation Supplement from 2012 to 2022 annually (PDF 171.11KB)
25/10/2022 - Maximum possible entitlement for Student Allowance, Living Costs and Accommodation Supplement from 2012 to 2022 annually [DATA] (Excel 14.08KB)
25/10/2022 - Current advice for how the policy will be implemented, the rationale for changing this policy, evidence that this decision was based on Steps to Freedom change from preloaded cards (PDF 497.62KB)
25/10/2022 - Communication and correspondence regarding Official Information Act request and response regarding Northland Border exemption, dated 7 March 2022 (PDF 174.62KB)
26/10/2022 - Numerous questions regarding superannuation payments that were cancelled or suspended due to the recipients being outside of New Zealand for too long (PDF 173.09KB)
26/10/2022 - How many people have had over A17 from outside of the Gisborne area since 2016 linked to Kainga Ora/Housing NZ and have been transferred by ethnicity (PDF 362.04KB)
26/10/2022 - Annual data for clients on Youth Payment and Young Parent by Gender from September 2022 most recent and the average amount of time they were received (PDF 142.59KB)
26/10/2022 - Annual data for clients on Youth Payment and Young Parent by Gender from September 2022 most recent and the average amount of time they were received [DATA] (Excel 11.38KB)
26/10/2022 - How much financial assistance was provided to clients via MyMSD in the previous 12 months (PDF 149.77KB)
27/10/2022 - EH Data requests, Total outstanding debts and EH clients moved to KO or alternative accommodation, all by each quarter since 2017, broken down by gender, ethnicity, and age (PDF 1.02MB)
27/10/2022 - All information held, sent by or received by MSD relating to the handling business travel documents applied for on or about September 30 2021, granted in error then cancelled on October 5 2021 (PDF 664.88KB)
27/10/2022 - How many applicants on the MSD housing register are 55 yrs or older in Counties-Manukau (PDF 838.82KB)
28/10/2022 - Request for information regarding MSD's salary bands (PDF 1.66MB)
28/10/2022 - Request for information regarding MSD's salary bands [DATA] (Excel 12.83KB)
28/10/2022 -Families currently living in Motels in Palmerston North, and the waiting list for Palmerston North Social Housing (PDF 570.86KB)
31/10/2022 - Further breakdown of all grants, loans, funds given and applications for costs of dental surgery to MSD for dental treatment over the last 10 years, by age and ethnicity (Excel 100.03KB)
31/10/2022 - Further breakdown of all grants, loans, funds given and applications for costs of dental surgery to MSD for dental treatment over the last 10 years, by age and ethnicity [DATA] (PDF 156.97KB)