Budget 2019 Fact sheets

MSD has received new funding of $1.3 billion over the next four years across a range of initiatives.

Communities, children and youth

Manage claims from people who have experienced abuse in state care (PDF 56.43KB)
Establish independent monitoring of the state care system for children and young people (PDF 80.24KB)
Cost pressure funding for contracted service providers (PDF 90.01KB)
Programmes to improve child wellbeing – KickStart and KidsCan (PDF 68.41KB)
Supporting evidence-based policy on child wellbeing by continuing the Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) study (PDF 80.48KB)
Social work sector — improving professionalism through managing mandatory registration (PDF 120.15KB)

Disabled people and those with health conditions

Support around 2,600 people to find and stay in meaningful employment, increase their knowledge and skills, and improve their health and wellbeing (PDF 74.22KB)
Strengthen MSD’s Office for Disability Issues to improve support and advocacy for disabled people (PDF 72.5KB)

Employment assistance

New frontline MSD staff to help people into work (PDF 60.42KB)
Extra places in the Mana in Mahi employment (PDF 93.61KB)

Family violence and sexual violence

Strengthening support for adult victims/survivors and perpetrators of sexual violence (PDF 112.99KB)
Expanding three innovative family violence prevention initiatives (PDF 110.92KB)
Extending Family Violence Response Coordination contracts (PDF 71.01KB)

Seniors

Enhance the SuperGold Card through a new app and website (PDF 62.84KB)
Allowing working ACC weekly claimants near to and over 65 to receive Superannuation or the Veteran's Pension (PDF 86.35KB)
Modernising and simplifying New Zealand Superannuation and the Veteran’s Pension (PDF 53.61KB)

Welfare overhaul

Indexing main benefits to the growth in net average wages (PDF 57.64KB)
Lifting abatement thresholds for those on benefits who work (PDF 87.37KB)
Removing deductions from benefits for sole parents (PDF 53.83KB)

Cross-government

Initiatives led by other agencies with funding for MSD (PDF 84.1KB)