People who were wrongly denied the benefit based on redundancy payments say they are “delighted” Work and Income has reviewed their cases and agreed to back pay them. This article answers the question, Does WINZ back pay?
Fixing some payment issues on WINZ Pay
We’ve found errors in some people’s payments which means we may owe you money. This includes Accommodation Supplement and Special Benefit.
Who’s affected by these errors
You may be affected if you got:
- Accommodation Supplement payments – if you:
- got this payment before December 2014, and
- moved between renting, boarding and living in your own home
- Accommodation Supplement payments – if you:
- got this payment before April 2018, and
- were paid incorrectly for the area you were living in
- Special Benefit payments – if you:
- got Special Benefit after 1 April 2006, and
- would have been paid more if you’d moved to Temporary Additional Support payments
- a Warrant to arrest – if:
- you had an arrest warrant before July 2016, and
- your payments were stopped or reduced because of this.
Find out more about these payment errors
Accommodation Supplement (type of accommodation) payment error
Accommodation Supplement (area you live in) payment error
Warrant to Arrest payment error
Check if we owe you money
We’ve repaid all our current clients.
If you’re a former client and think you’ve been affected by these issues, you can use our payment errors enquiry form to check if we owe you, or someone else, money.
Information
Your payment error enquiry will tell you if you’re owed any money, but won’t tell you how much you’re owed. We’ll write to tell you that.Open allsections