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Work and Income’s focus

• Responding to the economy

• Jobs with a future

• Partnering for results

• Value for money

• Organisational excellence

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Work and Income

• 147 Service Centres

• 3,800 staff

• 47,000 face to face meetings a week

• 125,000 phone calls a week

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Partnering

Community Links • share our resources with other agencies around

common clients

Integrated service response • Work differently with clients who have high multiple

and complex needs through an integrated cross-agency approach

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We support all people to move towards employment

• We always look at what people can do, not what they can’t

• Getting people working to their capacity

• Support will be provided to people based on their needs, so they can start a job and progress

• We maximise the job opportunities we have so people have employment options

• We help meet the recruitment needs of employers

• We build people’s skills to meet the needs of the labour market

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Help to get back to work

• Job Search Services• Health and Disability teams• Labour market teams

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Purchased services

• PATHS (Providing Access to Health Solutions)• Targeted Health Interventions (THI) • Mainstream• Employment related financial assistance• Work bridge• Supported Employment • Outward bound• LSV (Limited Service Volunteer)

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Mainstream Supported Employment Programme

• Mainstream provides a package of salary, training subsidies and other support, to help people with significant disabilities get work in the State sector

• Currently 229 people are participating in Mainstream across a range of employers

• Approximately 43% of participants move into fulltime permanent work

• Of this, approx 33% remain in work with their initial placement employer

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Vocational services and supported employment

• Funding for vocational services and supported employment for this financial year is $86 million

• 41% used for contracts for employment services

• 49% used for contracts for community participation services

• 8% used for contracts for Very High Needs

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SB/IB clients into work

• In the year ending 30 October 2010, 10,465 people receiving IB recorded receiving income from employment

• During the same period 5,551 people receiving SB or SBH recorded receiving income from employment

• 914 IB clients moved off benefit and into work

• 8,067 people receiving either SB or SBH moved off benefit and into work

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A fair benefit system

• Payments will be made to those who genuinely need them

• People will understand that receiving support brings mutual obligations

• Resources will be targeted to those who need them

• Support will be provided so that people can help themselves

• People have a right of review when they don’t agree with decisions made by us

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Health and Disability related benefits

• Invalid’s Benefit

• Sickness Benefit

• Domestic Purposes Benefit – Care of Sick or Infirm

• Disability Allowance

• Child Disability Allowance

• Civilian amputee assistance

• Live Organ Donor Assistance

• Veteran's Pension

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Child Disability Allowance

• There are 43,096 children for whom CDA is paid (as at August 2010)

• Uptake of CDA has increased by 27% since August 2005

• We continue to implement a range of initiatives to improve uptake including:

• profiling CDA information in a larger range of Ministry publications

• presentations to doctors and other health and disability organisations

• making information available at relevant community agencies and groups

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Review rights

• Work and Income is committed to service excellence.

• If we’ve made a decision that you don’t understand or agree with, please talk to us first.

– If you still disagree with our decision, you can ask for it to be reviewed. We have forms available for you to use or you can write to us.

• For more information about your rights and what you can expect from us go to

– www.workandincome.govt.nz/individuals/your-rights-and-responsibilities

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Thank you and any questions

For more information please go to our website:

www.workandincome.govt.nz