Bilateral Agreements - Changed Arrangements with New Zealand

A new bilateral social security agreement between Australia and New Zealand came into force on 1 July 2002. More information is available here.

Furthermore, Australian social security entitlements for New Zealanders moving to Australia changed on 26 February 2001. For more detailed information see the NZ-Australia Social Security website.

More Information

Other pages in the Bilateral Social Security Agreements section of our website may interest you:

· Overview of Australia's Agreements
· Advocacy Work by the SCG
· Examples and Case Studies
· Send Minister Vanstone an E-mail
· New Agreement with the United States
· Changed Arrangements with the UK
· Do You Qualify for the Australian Age Pension?

For up-to-the-minute information on Australia's existing agreements, the implementation of new agreements and negotiations on future agreements, please refer to the International Agreements Page of the Department of Family and Community Services website.

If you have any comments or questions concerning Australia's policy on and negotiation of bilateral social security agreements, please contact the International Branch of the Australian Department of Family and Community Services in Canberra.

If you have a question concerning your own benefit entitlements, contact Centrelink International Services.

The Bilateral Social Security Agreements folder in the Archives section of this site also contains considerable background documentation.

Comments and suggestions for improvement concerning this section of the SCG website should be addressed to SCG Committee member Anne MacGregor.