
Over 277,000 people received benefit support
The following charts show the numbers of benefits in the three largest categories at 30 June 2018, broken down by the ethnicity of recipients.

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Job seeker support: 122,513
- Pacific peoples: 9,367
- Other:17,854
- NZ European: 45,197
- Unspecified: 3,949
- Māori: 46,146

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Sole parent support: 58,558
- Pacific peoples: 6,261
- Other: 5,937
- NZ European: 17,141
- Unspecified: 1,272
- Māori: 27,947

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Support Living Payment: 92,642
- Pacific peoples: 6,100
- Other: 13,919
- NZ European: 45,769
- Unspecified: 3,177
- Māori: 23,677