Benefits or pensions in New Zealand were regular payments made by the government to people fitting within certain specified criteria. These differed from the various social insurance schemes created in New Zealand and internationally because they were non-contributory. Some payments were means-tested, being available only to those below a maximum income or property threshold, while others were ‘universal’, not requiring applicants to satisfy financial criteria. Such payments were widely described as pensions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, becoming more generally known as benefits from the 1930s.
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Pension payments
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CREATED BY
- Old Age Pensions Act 1898
RELEVANT LEGISLATION
- Department of Social Welfare Act 1971
- Military Pensions Act 1912
- Miners Phthisis Act 1915
- Old Age Pensions Act 1905
- Old Age Pensions Act 1908
- Pensions Act 1913
- Pensions Act 1926
- Social Security Act 1938
- Social Security Act 1964
- Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Act 1990
- Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Act 1998
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