Overview and key words
Types of main benefits, extra help, and hardship assistance
Work and Income group benefits and additional payments into three different categories:
- Category one: Main benefits
- Jobseeker Support
- Sole Parent Support
- Supported Living Payment (for working-age adults)
- Youth Payment and the Young Parent Payment (for people 16-19)
- New Zealand Superannuation (for people 65 or older)
- Emergency Benefit (for people in hardship who don’t qualify for any other main benefit).
- Category two: Ongoing extra help
- Disability Allowance
- Childcare Assistance
- Accommodation Supplement
- Winter Energy Payment
- Extra help for training or course costs, and for your child’s education costs
- Working for Families tax credit package
- Category three: One-off or temporary payments or loans to cover immediate, emergency, and essential costs
- Special Needs Grants (for example, food grants)
- Advances of Benefits (or Recoverable Assistance Payments if you’re not on a main benefit)
- Temporary Additional Support
- Hardship Assistance
- Help getting into work or self-employment
