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  • The Statistical Report 2011
  • Introduction to The Statistical Report
    • Introduction
    • Conventions in this report
  • Overall trends in the use of financial assistance
    • Numbers receiving assistance
    • Administration of financial assistance
  • Main benefits
    • Introduction
    • Payment rates
    • Overall trends
    • Dependent children
    • Benefit recipients declaring other income
    • Unemployment Benefits
    • Other unemployment-associated benefits
    • Domestic Purposes Benefits
    • Sickness Benefits
    • Invalid's Benefit
    • Widow's Benefit
    • Emergency Benefit
  • Supplementary benefits
    • Background
    • Payment rates for supplementary benefits
    • Accommodation Supplement
    • Away from Home Allowance
    • Unsupported Child's Benefit and Orphan's Benefit
    • Childcare assistance
    • Disability Allowance
    • Child Disability Allowance
    • Training Incentive Allowance
    • Temporary Additional Support and Special Benefit
    • The ReStart Package
    • Residential Care Subsidy and Residential Support Subsidy
  • Hardship assistance
    • Background
    • Costs covered and eligibility criteria
    • Use of lump-sum hardship assistance
  • Employment services
    • Background
    • Job Opportunities and Community Max
    • Registered jobseekers
    • Job Search Service
    • Transition to Work assistance
    • Course Participation Assistance
  • Superannuation and pensions
    • Introduction
    • War Disablement Pension
    • New Zealand Superannuation
    • Veterans' Pension
  • Child, Youth and Family
    • Introduction
    • Care and Protection Services
    • Youth Justice Services
  • Services to students
    • Introduction
    • Student Allowance
    • Student Loan
    • Scholarships
    • Benefits available to students
    • Student Job Search
    • Student Allowance Transfer Grant
  • Other services
    • Community Services Card
    • SuperGold Card
    • International payments
    • Integrity Services
  • List of tables
  • List of graphs
  • Alphabetical subject list
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Employment services

Registered jobseekers

Who are registered jobseekers?

Registered jobseekers include:

  • people required to register as jobseekers because they, or their spouses or partners, are receiving a work-tested benefit
  • people who choose to register with Work and Income as part of seeking work, to get help with finding work
  • some people who do not qualify for an Unemployment Benefit or count as officially unemployed.

Registered jobseekers are:

  • working fewer than 30 hours a week
  • seeking to work more hours
  • available for and actively seeking work.

Registration as a jobseeker denotes an administrative status. The number of registered jobseekers should not be confused with the number of recipients of a main benefit, nor with the number of officially unemployed.

Note on jobseeker statistics

The numbers of people required to register as jobseekers has fluctuated considerably in the past decade. This fluctuation is due in part to different work-testing regimes redefining the criteria for registration and to Work and Income changing its client engagement models. Comparisons over time in such numbers are therefore not readily interpreted.


Page last updated: 1 July 2012

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