Social Security Act 2018

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183A: Requirement to have completed jobseeker profile

You could also call this:

"You must fill out a jobseeker profile form if you want financial help to find a job."

If you ask the Ministry of Social Development for financial help, they will look at your situation. They might think you should get a benefit that helps you find a job, like jobseeker support or sole parent support. If so, you will have to fill out a jobseeker profile form to their satisfaction. This form is used to record your work experience, qualifications, and the kind of work you prefer. The Ministry of Social Development can ask you to do this in writing or by talking to you, and they can change their mind if they think it's not reasonable for you.

If you have a spouse or partner who is not getting a main benefit, and they are not subject to certain obligations, the Ministry of Social Development might also ask them to fill out a jobseeker profile form. You or your spouse or partner will get a form from the Ministry of Social Development or someone acting on their behalf. You use this form to tell them about your work experience, qualifications, and what kind of work you like.

The Ministry of Social Development can ask you or your spouse or partner to fill out the form, and they can do this by talking to you or in writing. They can also cancel this request if they think it's not fair in your situation.

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Factors affecting benefits: Factors affecting benefits: jobseeker profiles

183ARequirement to have completed jobseeker profile

  1. This section applies if—

  2. MSD is contacted by a person (P) (or by some other person acting on P’s behalf) requesting financial assistance under this Act for P; and
    1. the request for financial assistance for P is not a request for the regrant under section 336 of a specified benefit (as defined in section 331) that is—
      1. jobseeker support; or
        1. sole parent support; and
        2. MSD considers that—
          1. the appropriate financial assistance would be a benefit that is jobseeker support or sole parent support; or
            1. the appropriate financial assistance would be a benefit that is an emergency benefit and, if that financial assistance were granted to P, P would, or would likely, be subject to conditions that are or include that P be available for, and take reasonable steps to obtain, suitable employment.
            2. MSD must require P to have a jobseeker profile completed to MSD’s satisfaction.

            3. If P has a spouse or partner who is not, in the spouse’s or partner’s own right, receiving or applying for a main benefit under this Act, New Zealand superannuation, or a veteran’s pension, and who is not, or is not likely to be, subject to obligations under section 166 or 167, MSD must also require P’s spouse or partner to have a jobseeker profile completed to MSD’s satisfaction.

            4. In this section and sections 183B to 183D, jobseeker profile means a form provided—

            5. by or on behalf of MSD to P or P’s spouse or partner; and
              1. to enable P or P’s spouse or partner, by completing the form, to record P’s or P’s spouse or partner’s work experience, qualifications, and work preferences.
                1. A requirement under subsection (2) or (3)—

                2. may be oral or written; and
                  1. may be revoked orally or in writing if, and only if, MSD considers the requirement is not reasonable in the circumstances of P, of P’s spouse or partner, or of both.
                    Notes
                    • Section 183A: inserted, on , by section 11 of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).