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Jobseeker Support recipients by work readiness: NZ data and downloads

Jobseeker Support – work ready was 120,300 in Jun 2026 qtr, down 0.4% on a year earlier.

Updated

Source: Ministry of Social Development (MSD). Last retrieved 10 October 2026.

Jobseeker Support recipients by work readiness
Jobseeker Support – work readyJobseeker Support – health condition or disability
Jobseeker Support recipients by work readiness. Jobseeker Support – work ready, Jun 2012 qtr to Jun 2026 qtr, latest 120,300. Jobseeker Support – health condition or disability, Jun 2012 qtr to Jun 2026 qtr, latest 98,181.050,000100,000150,0002012201420172019202220242026
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PeriodJobseeker Support – work ready (number)Jobseeker Support – health condition or disability (number)
Jun 2026 qtr120,30098,181
Mar 2026 qtr118,35996,852
Dec 2025 qtr124,87598,637
Sep 2025 qtr121,35096,468
Jun 2025 qtr120,83195,178
Mar 2025 qtr117,42692,412
Dec 2024 qtr120,39992,922
Sep 2024 qtr116,90487,861
Jun 2024 qtr113,93182,506
Mar 2024 qtr108,29479,692
Dec 2023 qtr109,69880,100
Sep 2023 qtr104,61076,902
Jun 2023 qtr99,27673,851
Mar 2023 qtr96,88571,616
Dec 2022 qtr98,76671,337
Sep 2022 qtr98,93471,103
Jun 2022 qtr100,08670,674
Mar 2022 qtr100,85476,791
Dec 2021 qtr106,36281,627
Sep 2021 qtr112,05681,576
Full data: jobseeker by work readiness
June 2026 quarterJobseeker Support – work ready 120,300Jobseeker Support – health condition or disability 98,181
Jobseeker Support recipients by work readiness. Jobseeker Support – work ready: 120,300 in Jun 2026 qtr. Jobseeker Support – health condition or disability: 98,181 in Jun 2026 qtr.

Lines break at accounting-basis changes and missing periods. Source: Ministry of Social Development (MSD).

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Jobseeker Support recipients by work readiness: NZ data and downloads: definitions

People receiving Jobseeker Support at the end of each quarter, split between those assessed as work ready and those with a health condition or disability that limits their capacity to work.

Jobseeker Support recipients by work readiness: NZ data and downloads: comparison limits

These affect how the figures can be compared.

  • Work-readiness is MSD's administrative classification, not a survey measure.

Jobseeker Support recipients by work readiness: NZ data and downloads: data by period

The latest ten periods for up to the first six series. Downloads contain every published observation.

PeriodJobseeker Support – work readyJobseeker Support – health condition or disability
Jun 2026 qtr120,30098,181
Mar 2026 qtr118,35996,852
Dec 2025 qtr124,87598,637
Sep 2025 qtr121,35096,468
Jun 2025 qtr120,83195,178
Mar 2025 qtr117,42692,412
Dec 2024 qtr120,39992,922
Sep 2024 qtr116,90487,861
Jun 2024 qtr113,93182,506
Mar 2024 qtr108,29479,692

Jobseeker Support recipients by work readiness: NZ data and downloads: questions for your AI

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    The attached CSV is Jobseeker Support recipients by work readiness (jobseeker-by-work-readiness), from Ministry of Social Development (MSD), Benefit fact sheets: national benefit tables. Describe how each measure has changed, naming its unit and period. Treat changes in basis and missing periods as breaks. Distinguish observation from explanation. Limitations: Work-readiness is MSD's administrative classification, not a survey measure.. Do not infer causation from changes during government terms.

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Jobseeker Support recipients by work readiness: NZ data and downloads: sources

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Organisation
Ministry of Social Development (MSD), Benefit fact sheets: national benefit tables
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Ministry of Social Development, Benefit fact sheets, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Figures compiled across releases by NZ in Numbers.
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Snapshot
data/raw/msd-benefits/2026-10-10_90cd8e7c8ff2.xlsx
SHA256
90cd8e7c8ff210ca9334eb035dfef3a39abdefe10365e5f7a6ccbd4291248f74
Retrieved
10 October 2026