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24 January 2025

A man who received more than $28,000 of COVID-19 Wage Subsidy payments he was not entitled to has been sentenced to 10 months home detention.

21 January 2025

A Lower Hutt man who made more than a dozen dishonest wage subsidy claims has been sentenced to four months community detention and 12 months’ supervision.

7 January 2025

A woman made large cash withdrawals from her bank account immediately after receiving two fraudulent COVID-19 Wage Subsidy payouts.

1 November 2024

MSD has today published its Total Incomes Annual Report, which gives an overview of total weekly income for main benefits between April 2023 and April 2024.