Papatoetoe Budgeting & Family Services
About Us
We are a not-for-profit organisation to help our vulnerable clients, who need assistance to get their debts under control and live a happy life. We now completely rely on grants to run our service to meet on going expenses.
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The service works very closely with MSD clients who are on benefit and others who are working or not but wants to do Kiwi Saver Hardship Withdrawal or do Budgeting for a change and live within their means.
We also do:
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NP
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DRO
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Insolvency
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Negotiation with Creditors
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Make Budget worksheets
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Debt Schedule
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Forecast Cash Flow
Give supporting letters to clients to give them some relief in the form of negotiated repayments to Creditors or apply for assistance, which is highly needed for their whanau like food grants, Housing NZ, Special Needs Grants, Kiwi Saver and any other support letters needed.
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We work very closely with our clients and their whanau to give them financial literacy programme. We want to see every whanau has enough to eat, have safe home, children’s education, repay their debts, paid work and become independent.
We also make sure children have education, are safe, warm and enough healthy food to eat. The financial literacy is to teach them about how to control their finances, get more income and spend less and save enough for unforeseen circumstances.
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We distribute Christmas food boxes given to us by Christmas Box NZ and Christmas gift boxes given for distribution by Catalyst Foundation. This gives great relief to the families.
We also work very closely with Food parcel distributors- Christian Food Bank, Salvation Army, and Mangere Marae.
​​​We work very closely with other Budget Services to ensure to assist the vulnerable client in whatever way assistance can be given to bring relief to the whanau.
We also make sure that clients stay away from addictions such as gambling and drugs and any other such habit which can hinder their progress.​
