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• Invictus 2020 applications open

  Following the success of the 2018 Invictus Games, applications are being called for from current and former service men and women for the 2020 Invictus Games. Applications close 1 May 2019. Abou…

• Attendant Care—Social Rehabilitation

  Who can get this You can get this support if your condition was because of service either: before 1 April 1974, or on Qual…

• Weekly Compensation payment rates

  Weekly payment Weekly Compensation is calculated as a weekly financial support and paid: every two weeks within NZ, or every four weeks outside of NZ. All payment rates are before tax. P…

• Veterans' Independence Programme

  From 13 March 2024, we are suspending the Veterans’ Independence Programme (VIP) for new clients without a service-related condition. The suspension will last for one year (until March 2025). There …

• Veterans' Affairs spends $650,000 on funerals and cemetery work

  We have installed nearly 700 new headstones and plaques for veterans in New Zealand this year and spent more than $650,000 overall on funerals, memorials, and maintenance work in cemeteries. We have …

• Twenty years in Afghanistan

  NZDF’s deployment in Afghanistan was one of New Zealand’s longest-lasting. Over 3,500 New Zealanders took part in military operations and training of local army personnel and local police, but also…

• Minister announces boost for services to veterans and their families

  Minister for Veterans Ron Mark has today announced additional funding to support the wellbeing of New Zealand’s veterans and their families. The funding will go towards health and wellbeing assessmen…

• Changes to the list of Statements of Principles and names of conditions, August 2021

  On 5 August 2021 changes were made to: the list of Australian Statements of Principles that apply in New Zealand the list of accepted late-onset conditions. Statements of Principles The Statemen…

• Determined effort identifies Lake Alice hospital veterans' graves

  Plans are underway for a ceremony in the Rangitikei town of Marton to bless a number of previously unmarked graves of First and Second World War veterans who died while in the care of the old Lake Ali…

• Dave Samuels: What veterans could bring to the public service

  Te Puni Kōkiri and Ngā Ara Whakatupuranga | New Frontiers It’s very difficult to find fault with Dave Samuels’ logic. “You only need to read the news to see that the Public Service is strugglin…