54705 (2025). Ricardo Menéndez March to the Minister for Social Development and Employment

54705 (2025). Ricardo Menéndez March to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: Further to Question 42678 (2025), how many Advance Payments of Benefits have been declined from 1 July 2025 to 20 November 2025, broken down by purpose of the Advance Payment, quarter, gender, ethnicity, reason for the decline and Work and Income office?

Hon Louise Upston: I refer the Member to the attached tables: • Table 1: Number of clients who have been declined an Advance Payment of Benefit and number of Advance Payments of benefit declined from 1 July 2025 to 31 October 2025 by quarter and need type • Table 2: Number of clients who have been declined an Advance Payment of Benefit and number of Advance Payments of benefit declined from 1 July 2025 to 31 October 2025 by quarter and gender • Table 3: Number of Advance Payments of benefit declined from 1 July 2025 to 31 October 2025 by quarter and ethnicity • Table 4: Number of clients who have been declined an Advance Payment of Benefit and number of Advance Payments of benefit declined from 1 July 2025 to 31 October 2025 by quarter and Work and Income office • Table 5: Number of clients who have been declined an Advance Payment of Benefit and number of Advance Payments of benefit declined from 1 July 2025 to 31 October 2025 by quarter and reason for decline