Part 4Factors affecting benefits
Factors affecting benefits: Factors affecting benefits: jobseeker profiles
183ARequirement to have completed jobseeker profile
This section applies if—
- 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
- 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—
- jobseeker support; or
- sole parent support; and
- jobseeker support; or
- MSD considers that—
- the appropriate financial assistance would be a benefit that is jobseeker support or sole parent support; or
- 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.
- the appropriate financial assistance would be a benefit that is jobseeker support or sole parent support; or
MSD must require P to have a jobseeker profile completed to MSD’s satisfaction.
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.
In this section and sections 183B to 183D, jobseeker profile means a form provided—
- by or on behalf of MSD to P or P’s spouse or partner; and
- 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.
A requirement under subsection (2) or (3)—
- may be oral or written; and
- 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).