Payments if a child comes into your care at short notice

Official source

When a child comes into your care, you should stop working straightaway if you can. In some situations this may not be possible, for example, if a child comes into your care permanently at short notice and you need time to sort out your work and childcare arrangements. This could happen if you are the primary carer and:

you’re the spouse or partner of the birth mother and the birth mother dies or is excluded from the child’s care, and the child is under 1 year old

you take primary responsibility for a child under 6 years old, for example, through an arrangement like adoption, whāngai, or a Permanent Care agreement with Oranga Tamariki.

In this situation you can choose a date to stop work and start receiving parental leave payments after you become primary carer. The date you choose must be within a reasonable period of the date the child came into your care.

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Payments if a child comes into your care at short notice

Official source

When a child comes into your care, you should stop working straightaway if you can. In some situations this may not be possible, for example, if a child comes into your care permanently at short notice and you need time to sort out your work and childcare arrangements. This could happen if you are the primary carer and:

you’re the spouse or partner of the birth mother and the birth mother dies or is excluded from the child’s care, and the child is under 1 year old

you take primary responsibility for a child under 6 years old, for example, through an arrangement like adoption, whāngai, or a Permanent Care agreement with Oranga Tamariki.

In this situation you can choose a date to stop work and start receiving parental leave payments after you become primary carer. The date you choose must be within a reasonable period of the date the child came into your care.