Benefit Fact Sheets - December 2020

The Benefit Fact Sheets provide a high-level view of trends in benefit receipt. The Benefit Fact Sheets provide breakdowns of overall numbers, where appropriate, by recipient demographics (e.g. gender, ethnicity, age group, continuous duration of benefit) and location (i.e. Work and Income Region, Service Centre, Regional Council, and Territorial Authority).

During the COVID-19 pandemic response situation, we are releasing a reduced amount of supporting material for the Benefit Fact Sheets. New weekly and monthly COVID-19 reporting and data are available, please go to: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/statistics/covid-19/index.html

Below you can find the data tables for the December 2020 quarter, which are in a machine readable format, XLSX spreadsheets, and HTML links to the Benefit Fact Sheets homepage.

For the previous Benefit Fact Sheets release, please go to: https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/benefit-fact-sheets-september-2020

The next Benefit Fact Sheets release is for the December 2020 quarter.

Data and Resources

Benefit Fact Sheets Snapshot - December 2020PDF
The following A4 snapshot contains a summary of benefit, supplementary and hardship trends over the last five years.
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National level data tables - December 2020XLSX
This spreadsheet provides national level data for main benefits and supplementary benefits.
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Benefit grants and cancellations XLSX
This spreadsheet provides information on main benefit grants and cancellations, with breakdowns by Work and Income Region.
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Work and Income regionsXLSX
This spreadsheet provides information on main benefit numbers by Work and Income region.
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Work and Income regions supplementary assistanceXLSX
This spreadsheet provides information on supplementary assistance provided to clients by Work and Income region.
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Regional CouncilsXLSX
This spreadsheet provides information on main benefit numbers by Regional Council areas.
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Territorial Authorities (TAs)XLSX
This spreadsheet has information on main benefits by Territorial Authority areas.
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Auckland Boards XLSX
This spreadsheet has information on main benefit numbers by Auckland Board areas.
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Service CentresXLSX
This spreadsheet has information on main benefit numbers at the Work and Income Service Centre level.
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New Zealand Superannuation and Veteran's PensionXLSX
This spreadsheet contains information about New Zealand Superannuation (NZS) and Veteran's Pension (VP) clients. It also includes numbers by Territorial Authority, and details regarding overseas...
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Benefit Sanctions XLSX
This spreadsheet contains information regarding benefit sanctions.
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Benefit Fact Sheets homepage HMTL
This is a link to the Benefit Fact Sheets homepage, which contains all links to the Excel data tables, the Benefit Fact Sheets Snapshot and archived content.
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Additional Info

Field	Value
Theme	Employment and Welfare
Author	Ministry of Social Development
Maintainer	Ministry of Social Development
Update frequency	Quarterly
Source	http://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/statistics/benefit/index.html
Source Created	2021-01-28
Source Modified	2021-01-28
Language	English
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Source Identifier	http://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/statistics/benefit/index.html