http://buggerit.co.nz/mybb/ Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:58:35 +0000 MyBB http://buggerit.co.nz/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:52:42 -0600 http://buggerit.co.nz/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5
Off to the Studylink website he went, he located and filled out the applications for both Student Hardship Benefit, and Student Transfer Grant (which is supposed to allow for the weeks difference and puts a halt to the compulsory stand down, if applied early enough for...)

Cool, we thought. Everything had been filled out and sent off and we were waiting for a response.

... and waiting ...
... and waiting ...
... and then!

Studylink called, "we haven't received this and that, can you urgently fax them?" - Panic.

We HAD sent this and that prior to, but apparently they were for the continuance of his Student Allowance, not for the pending applications that we were struggling to push through now.

So we resent everything (from an amazingly empty Winz office in Huntly...) - faxed urgently, and we had a call later that day saying things were being processed and all would be fine and done with, within a couple of days.

- however, even though we had applied for the Student Transfer Grant, we still faced a compulsory one week stand-down -- but at the operators discretion, there was no stand-down anyways.

And wtf? Payments are coming from Winz? Not Studylink?
(We actually have to log onto the Winz website to check next payment dates and amounts, even though all the applications were done through Studylink)

Astounding, since Winz may have your birth certificate/bank account details, but Studylink don't and won't get in touch with Winz for a copy of it.. that would be too easy, right?

We got that benefit sorted. I'm just dreading the February ordeal which will come with transferring back from Benefit to Allowance. Oh yay.

Lol...]]>
Off to the Studylink website he went, he located and filled out the applications for both Student Hardship Benefit, and Student Transfer Grant (which is supposed to allow for the weeks difference and puts a halt to the compulsory stand down, if applied early enough for...)

Cool, we thought. Everything had been filled out and sent off and we were waiting for a response.

... and waiting ...
... and waiting ...
... and then!

Studylink called, "we haven't received this and that, can you urgently fax them?" - Panic.

We HAD sent this and that prior to, but apparently they were for the continuance of his Student Allowance, not for the pending applications that we were struggling to push through now.

So we resent everything (from an amazingly empty Winz office in Huntly...) - faxed urgently, and we had a call later that day saying things were being processed and all would be fine and done with, within a couple of days.

- however, even though we had applied for the Student Transfer Grant, we still faced a compulsory one week stand-down -- but at the operators discretion, there was no stand-down anyways.

And wtf? Payments are coming from Winz? Not Studylink?
(We actually have to log onto the Winz website to check next payment dates and amounts, even though all the applications were done through Studylink)

Astounding, since Winz may have your birth certificate/bank account details, but Studylink don't and won't get in touch with Winz for a copy of it.. that would be too easy, right?

We got that benefit sorted. I'm just dreading the February ordeal which will come with transferring back from Benefit to Allowance. Oh yay.

Lol...]]> http://buggerit.co.nz/mybb/showthread.php?tid=4 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:11:45 -0600 http://buggerit.co.nz/mybb/showthread.php?tid=4 The official website for New Zealand's Studylink is
http://www.studylink.govt.nz/

Works on a cellphone - General Enquiries
0800 88 99 00
You'll need either your IRD number, or your Studylink Client number.

The Studylink 'Contact Page' is here

I do have a number written down somewhere for urgent faxes to Studylink to be sent... I'll try to locate it and will update when I can.

Please Note!
There is a MASSIVE difference between Student Allowance and Student Loan. Make sure you can differentiate between them when you're considering going through Studylink.

Work and Income, Studylink and Inland Revenue do not exchange information so it is in your own best interests to keep your paperwork handy at all times.

]]> The official website for New Zealand's Studylink is
http://www.studylink.govt.nz/

Works on a cellphone - General Enquiries
0800 88 99 00
You'll need either your IRD number, or your Studylink Client number.

The Studylink 'Contact Page' is here

I do have a number written down somewhere for urgent faxes to Studylink to be sent... I'll try to locate it and will update when I can.

Please Note!
There is a MASSIVE difference between Student Allowance and Student Loan. Make sure you can differentiate between them when you're considering going through Studylink.

Work and Income, Studylink and Inland Revenue do not exchange information so it is in your own best interests to keep your paperwork handy at all times.

]]> http://buggerit.co.nz/mybb/showthread.php?tid=3 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:48:40 -0600 http://buggerit.co.nz/mybb/showthread.php?tid=3 The official website for New Zealand's Work and Income is
http://www.workandincome.govt.nz/

Works on a cellphone - General Enquiries
0800 559 009
(Make sure you have your client number ready)

A full list of the "Contact Winz" numbers are here

A - Z list of payments available from Winz here
]]> The official website for New Zealand's Work and Income is
http://www.workandincome.govt.nz/

Works on a cellphone - General Enquiries
0800 559 009
(Make sure you have your client number ready)

A full list of the "Contact Winz" numbers are here

A - Z list of payments available from Winz here
]]> http://buggerit.co.nz/mybb/showthread.php?tid=2 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:29:38 -0600 http://buggerit.co.nz/mybb/showthread.php?tid=2 The official website for New Zealand's Inland Revenue Department is
http://www.ird.govt.nz/

If you're anything like me, you live rurally and only have a cellphone at hand. This 0800 number actually works, dialing from a cell.
0800 221 221
(ok, so it's actually the number for the child support part of IRD, but you just wait til you get to the main menu and play dumb..
are you calling about child support? say yes.. get to the operator and ramble on about something completely different.
IT'S ALL GOOD!)

-- they do at least transfer you to the sector you need, when asked politely.

A full list of the "Contact IRD" numbers are here

]]> The official website for New Zealand's Inland Revenue Department is
http://www.ird.govt.nz/

If you're anything like me, you live rurally and only have a cellphone at hand. This 0800 number actually works, dialing from a cell.
0800 221 221
(ok, so it's actually the number for the child support part of IRD, but you just wait til you get to the main menu and play dumb..
are you calling about child support? say yes.. get to the operator and ramble on about something completely different.
IT'S ALL GOOD!)

-- they do at least transfer you to the sector you need, when asked politely.

A full list of the "Contact IRD" numbers are here

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