Our spending by 'Ministry of Social Development' for 2016

. This appropriation is limited to an income for people who have reached the qualifying age of 65 years and fulfil the residency requirements, as provided for in the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act 2001.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to means-tested income support for people who are eligible for Jobseeker Support or an Emergency Benefit, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to loans to tertiary students undertaking studies at approved tertiary institutions in accordance with Cabinet decisions.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to means-tested income support for people who are eligible for the Supported Living Payment, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to payments for accommodation costs, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 1964 or any legislation that replaces that Act.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to means-tested income support for people who are eligible for Sole Parent Support, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the part purchase of tenancies from social housing providers.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to means-tested allowances for students on an approved study programme, paid in accordance with criteria set out in the Student Allowance Regulations 1998; and payment of Student Allowance Transfer Grants to students with dependants, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the provision of social work and support services, both statutory and informal, to promote the wellbeing of children, young people and their families who are or have been in contact with the care system, including care and protection services; services for the development of the potential of such children and young people; and the provision of education and advice to help prevent child abuse and neglect.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the Disability Allowance for people with disability costs, the Child Disability Allowance to the caregivers of children with a serious disability, and the Special Disability Allowance for the purpose of defraying expenses from the hospitalisation of a spouse or partner, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018. The Special Disability Allowance may also be paid in accordance with criteria set out in the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act 2001.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This category is limited to assessing, paying, reviewing entitlements and collecting balances owed by clients for income support, supplementary assistance, grants and allowances, and administering international social security agreements relating to disabled people, sole parents, and widows and widowers.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This category is limited to providing specified assistance, including services, to eligible people to help them move into and retain sustainable employment, in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to Civil Defence payments, Funeral Grants, Special Benefit, Special Needs Grants, Temporary Accommodation Assistance and Temporary Additional Support to provide means-tested temporary financial assistance to persons with emergency or essential costs, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to assistance for the costs of childcare that meets specific quality guidelines, where parents meet activity and income criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to recoverable assistance payments, as a facility for low-income earners and beneficiaries to access means-tested assistance to help them to meet essential and immediate needs, or costs in specific circumstances, and to meet costs of pre-employment drug tests, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the Orphan's/Unsupported Child's Benefit and additional assistance to provide income support for people charged with the responsibility for a child whose parents are dead or cannot be located, suffer a serious long-term disablement, or where there has been a breakdown in the child's family, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to social work and other services to manage and resolve offending behaviour by children and young people, by providing assessment, support, programmes, containment and care of young offenders.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to initiatives and services, with a focus on prevention and early intervention, that support and strengthen community functioning and improve outcomes for families.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the purchase or development of assets by and for the use of the Ministry of Social Development, as authorised by section 24(1) of the Public Finance Act 1989.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the purchase of services that aim to improve the life outcomes for children, young people and families through support and development programmes, and programmes that will prevent any future harm or abuse.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the provision of services, resources, assistance and support to people so they can participate in and contribute to the wider community.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This category is limited to providing services to eligible people to address barriers to employment to help them become work ready, in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to services to minimise errors, fraud and abuse of the benefit system and Income Related Rent, and services to manage the collection of overpayments, recoverable assistance loans and other balances owed by former clients.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to approving community based social services; managing the relationship with service providers, including funding and monitoring; and the co-ordination of social support services to strengthen families and whanau.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to income support and incentive payments for people who are eligible for the Youth Payment or Young Parent Payment, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to reimbursement to the Australian Government for income support assistance provided to New Zealanders eligible under the 1994 Reciprocal Agreement pursuant to the Social Welfare (Reciprocity with Australia) Order 2002.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to processing and administering New Zealand Superannuation payments, social security entitlements and international social security agreements to older persons, providing advice to older persons, and assessing financial entitlement to residential subsidies.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This category is limited to assessing and reviewing eligibility for social housing and income related rent, social housing register management and the accurate and timely payment of income related rent subsidies to the social housing provider.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to providing advice (including second opinion advice and contributions to policy advice led by other agencies) to support decision-making by Ministers on government social policy and related matters, including social sector issues.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the purchase of services, including family counselling and other post-crisis interventions that restore the wellbeing of children, young people and families who have suffered harm and abuse or other forms of family breakdown or youth justice issues.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the provision of assistance to Out of School Care and Recreation programmes approved in accordance with regulations made under the Social Security Act 2018, to assist with the establishment and/or operating costs of OSCAR programmes.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to managing non-recoverable financial support to students, involving assessing, administering and processing Student Allowance payments and other income support to eligible secondary and tertiary students.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to assessing, administering, processing and reviewing entitlements for Student Loan payments and providing guidance to students making financial and study decisions.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the provision of services from the Families Commission to promote the wellbeing of a full range of New Zealand families and whänau through undertaking research and evidence gathering to build a transfer of knowledge to policymakers and purchasers and providers of services.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to financial assistance to people in special circumstances and comprises the Clothing Allowance, and providing assistance for community costs, domestic violence and witness protection relocation, home help, social rehabilitation assistance, telephone costs, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018; and Civilian Amputees Assistance, paid in accordance with criteria set out in the Disabled Persons Community Welfare Act 1975.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to scholarships and awards to tertiary students awarded in accordance with Cabinet decisions; and Teach NZ Scholarships awarded in accordance with the Education Act 1989.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to providing data, analytics and evidence services to better inform government decision-making.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the provision of programmes and services to enable the implementation of the Youth Development Strategy Aotearoa at a regional and local level.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the purchase of education and prevention programmes and initiatives that aim to provide skills to children, young people and families who are at risk of harm or abuse, which will help them reduce the risk of that abuse or harm.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the management of services, incorporating education, assessment, reporting, counselling, and mediation, to all people who are party to adoption-related matters, past or present.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to assessing entitlement, issuing cards, and promoting and distributing information about the Community Services, SuperGold and Veteran SuperGold cards, including enlisting business partners to provide discounts to SuperGold cardholders.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to providing planning, reporting and monitoring advice (other than policy decision-making advice) on Crown entities, statutory appointment advice on Crown entities and statutory tribunals, and correspondence services to support Ministers to discharge their portfolio responsibilities.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to providing services to promote and monitor the implementation of the New Zealand Disability Strategy, to monitor and implement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and to provide information to Ministers and external agencies on disability matters.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This category is limited to the administration of the Social Sector Trials by non-governmental organisations in specified locations, leading a cross-agency approach to improve outcomes for target groups, and the social services purchased by the Social Sector Trials to improve social service delivery and improve outcomes.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the operation of the Property Management Centre of Expertise, to provide leadership, guidance and support, monitoring and brokerage in respect of property management within the State Sector.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to placement services for students for holiday and term employment.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to payments to beneficiaries, low income earners, students and ex beneficiaries to assist them to obtain and maintain employment, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to providing leadership and service delivery to promote the interests of, and improve outcomes for, young people.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to activities relating to the provision of emergency housing support for eligible families and individuals in high need areas.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This category is limited to the administration of the Social Sector Trials by a national programme office, and by government-employed Social Sector Trial Leads in specified locations, leading a cross-agency approach to improve outcomes for target groups.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the provision of services from the Children's Commissioner including the discharge of the Commissioner's duties under the Children's Commissioner Act 2003, monitoring and reporting on services delivered under the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989, and the identification of aspects of law, policy and practice that might adversely affect children and the development and proposal of remedies.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to providing financial assistance to carers receiving the Orphan's Benefit or Unsupported Child's Benefit to assist with costs for children in their care who are either experiencing difficulties that significantly impact on their development, or who are showing promise.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to expenses incurred in designing and implementing a cross agency social investment system.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This category is limited to the provision of incentives, products and services to help households with lower housing need who are in, or seeking social housing, to access or retain alternative housing solutions.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to providing information and facilitation to protect the rights and interests of older people, to promote local community involvement in senior issues, and ministerial services.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to providing support to secure access to properties for social housing providers to use for social housing tenancies.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the provision of one-off partial funding, to assist Territorial Authorities to respond to the emerging needs and opportunities for young people.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the payment of course fees for Family Start family/whanau and NGO workers pursuing social work qualifications, in accordance with Cabinet decisions.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This category is limited to the procurement of other advice (including advice on operational matters; advice from expert parties that provide review services not available in-house; advice on matters where a review is necessary but cannot be undertaken due to a conflict of interest; and advice on procurement to ensure value for money) on government priority areas.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to supplementary financial assistance to people who are adversely affected by changes in policy or legislation, so they will not be financially worse off at the point of change, paid in accordance with criteria set out in, or in delegated legislation made under, the Social Security Act 2018.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.

. This appropriation is limited to the provision for write-downs of Crown debt administered by the Ministry of Social Development due to debt write offs or debt provisions resulting from the need to value debt in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice.

Comments Votes Comment or Vote on this.