Weekly Reporting
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An overview of income support, and hardship assistance, delivered each week by the Ministry of Social Development.
The data file provides the figures used to produce the Income Support Weekly Update and includes timeseries data on main benefits, Jobseeker Support by Regional Council, and other selected data cuts.
Confidentiality - Random Rounding
All information in the Income Support Weekly Update has been randomly rounded to base 3. The information found in the supporting data file has been rounded independently from the Income Support Weekly Update A3.
From 12 February 2021 the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is applying a range of new confidentiality procedures to public data releases. These procedures will continue to protect client information, while making more data available. To find out how we have changed the way we work with client information visit:
Aligning Regional Council Reporting
There has been a change in the method used to obtain Regional Council region numbers to improve the accuracy of the reporting. This means that the numbers reported in the Income Support Weekly Update will now align with numbers reported in the Monthly Benefits Update, and the quarterly Benefit Fact Sheets.
Latest Income Support Weekly Update releases
The Income Support Weekly Updates are released each Friday at 10am. Publishing times may vary during weeks with a public holiday.
Previous reports for 2021 have been archived, and are available on the weekly reporting archive page.
