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New Zealanders living overseas have reported receiving emails from Inland Revenue to say they would receive the payment.

Kiwis who weren’t in paid work in New Zealand during the 2021/22 tax year could also receive the payment if they had income from bank interest. "For e-mails, the easiest way to tell if an e-mail is a scam is to hover over the address it has come from to check if that address includes ‘govt.nz’. If it does, it will be from us." "It is possible that, for a number of technical reasons, there will be people who didn’t expect to get the cost of living payment, who are eligible to receive the first of the three payments due tomorrow," the spokesperson said. If someone has left the country, and hasn’t told Inland Revenue they’re not living in New Zealand, Inland Revenue will treat them as resident, and they may receive the cost of living payment, the spokesperson said. Inland Revenue says it won't proactively chase Kiwis living overseas who may receive the Government's cost of living payment in error. An Inland Revenue spokesperson said it had based its payment on the information it held at the time of making each cost of living payment.