School and Year Start-up Payment

About this form

Complete this form if you want to apply for the School and Year Start-up Payment. This payment helps with pre-school or school-related costs if you're caring for someone else's child. Please check your information is correct before you submit this form, including the date of birth and using the correct spelling of names. This will help prevent delays receiving your payment. If you've already submitted an application you won't need to send us anything else. We'll process your application as soon as we can.

Payment can take up to 10 working days from the date you submit your application.

Please note the questions in this form may change dynamically based on your answers to previous questions.

Keeping a copy of this form

After you submit the form, you’ll see a confirmation page with all the info you entered. If you want to keep a copy, you can print that page or save it as a PDF using the browser’s print function.

Caregiver details

Client number (required)You can find this on your Community Services Card, SuperGold Card or by requesting a client number online

First name(s) (required)

Last name (required)

Date of birth (required)

Address Line 1 (required)

Address Line 2 (optional)

Suburb (optional)

City (required)

Postcode (required)If you're not sure what the postcode is for this address, you can find it with the NZ Post postcode finder

Phone number (required)This must be a valid New Zealand number.

Children's details

To get the payment as quickly as possible, please enter children's details as they appear in the School and Year Start-up Payment letter you received, or by checking your MyMSD account.

Child's details 1

First name(s) (required)

Last name (required)

Date of birth (required)

Declaration

I have read the Ministry of Social Development's privacy notice and understand how my information will be used (required)

MSD Number