IRD cost of living payment

More than 164,000 people could miss out on the government's $350 cost of living bonus payments because the Inland Revenue department does not have their bank ...

He told Checkpoint that IRD already had the details of more than 90 per cent of those eligible for the payments. He said the fact IRD did not have some people's current bank account numbers reflected that not everyone in New Zealand was required to supply them to IRD. A team of more than 700 staff were working at IRD working to reach everyone eligible for the payment, and updating their details, and disputed the claim that IRD had said it did not have capacity to deliver the payment. "The most common way that people update their details with IRD these days is on the internet, [through] myIRD, but we do have telephone services and we have many hundreds of people that are engaged with this task." But IRD needs their current bank account details to be able to make the payment. More than 164,000 people could miss out on the government's $350 cost of living bonus payments because the Inland Revenue department does not have their bank account details.