young partners of working age clients
The way you support partners of working age clients is different to other young people.
how youth service providers can help young partners of working age clients
In Youth Service we have some young people who are in a relationship with someone receiving a working-age benefit (like Jobseeker Support).
You'll support the young person with their youth activity obligations, some admin and some add on payments. Their partner (we call them the "primary") will manage their shared payments with a Work and Income case manager.
meeting their youth activity obligations
You'll help the young person to meet their youth activity obligations. You'll need to help them with:
- being in full-time education, training or work-based learning
- attend and participate in regular engagement with you
- participating in a budgeting programme
- having their money managed
- for parents,
- attending a parenting programme
- keep up to date with Well Child Tamariki Ora checks
- enroll their children with a Primary Health Organisation, and
- have their child in Early Childcare Education whild they are participating in education, training or work-based learning .
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applying for some payments
The following payments can be applied for by young partners through their youth coach:
- Reviews
- Child Disability Allowance
- Course Participation Assistance
- Disability Allowance
- Flexible Childcare Assistance
- GCAP & OSCAR
- Home Help Payment
- Incentive Payments
- Hardship Assistance
- FOOD
- Glasses
- OTHER
- Payment Card Balance Transfer
- Transition to work grant
- Whiteware
- Programme costs
- Programme costs for approval
general tasks
You can support these young partners with most general tasks. The following tasks can be done by a youth coach:
- Issues Management
- Client is suspected of fraud
- Client wants to lodge a Complaint
- Client wants to lodge a Review of Decision
- Family Violence
- Report Duplicate Record
- Report of Concern to Oranga Tamariki
- Trespass Notification
- Reviews
- Absence from NZ
- Age Out of Youth Service
- Bank Account Change
- Exemptions
- Limited Service Volunteer Payment
- Payment Card
- Redirections
- Request to give client the right to manage their own money
- Request to place young person onto Money Management
- Request Client details update
- Update OT details
- Update personal and contact details
- Obligations
- Obligation failure
- Recompliance
what you can't help partners of a working age client with
There are some things that the working age partner needs to apply for on behalf of the couple through Work and Income.
These things are:
- Temporary Additional Support
- Waiting for Benefit Decision
- Accommodation Assistance - Change of address/Accommodation costs
- Transition to Work Grant
- Relocate for Work Support
- Change in Relationship
- Child Changes.
The above things cannot be done by the Youth Service providers as they affect the benefit shared between the young partner and the working-age partner.