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• Eligibility criteria for family and dependants

  Check if you are eligible for support The easiest way to check if you or your family and whānau are eligible is to use our "Check your eligibility" tool. It only takes a few minutes.  …

• Change to the list of Statements of Principles and accepted late-onset conditions, May 2024

  The Statements of Principles (SOPs) are a tool to determine if an injury,  illness or death is service-related. On 9 May 2024, 22 replacement Statements of Principles and 6 new Statements of Pr…

• Change to the list of Statements of Principles and accepted late-onset conditions, June 2024

  The Statements of Principles (SOPs) are a tool to determine if an injury, illness or death is service-related.   On 27 June 2024, 20 replacement Statements of Principles and 16 new Statements of …

• Change to the list of Statements of Principles and accepted late-onset conditions, October 2024

  The Statements of Principles (SOPs) are a tool to determine if an injury, illness, or death is service-related. On 31 October 2024, 22 replacement Statements of Principles and four new Statements of…

• Gerard Wood | From military nurse to veteran advocate

  Veterans who have been to our forums and expos will probably have met Gerard Wood (Ret Lt Col) in the Veterans' Affairs team — a larger-than-life character brimming with good humour, lots of knowledge…

• Commonwealth and allied country plaque and headstone funding

  Background As of 1 July 2016, we ceased our previous practice of funding plaques and headstones for Commonwealth and Allied veterans. Thi…

• 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…

• From the Minister for Veterans—Summer 2018

  Hon Ron Mark, Minister for Veterans With Christmas almost upon us, I’d like to extend my best wishes to you, our veterans, and your families. It’s been another busy year, so it’s important we now …

• Our new website

  Welcome to our new website We've made it easier for you to find out about: the support we can provide who can receive it, and how to access it. Easy to understand We've used simple languag…

• The Coastwatchers of Tarawa, Kiribati

  In October 1942, seventeen New Zealand coastwatchers on the Tarawa atoll, in the Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati) were murdered by the Japanese occupiers. Coastwatchers were military and civilian per…