When New Zealanders are in need of public housing, their needs are recorded on either the Housing Register or the Transfer Register. The numbers of applications on both registers are published on a quarterly basis, and the combined register is referred to as the Social Housing Register. The Housing Register represents applicants not currently in public...

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 (eg gender, ethnicity, age group, continuous duration of benefit) and location (ie Work and Income region and service centre, regional council, and territorial...