In accordance with Article 15 of the Social Security Agreement concluded on 13 February 1984 between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, The following, referred to as the „agreement,“ agreed that if you are temporarily travelling abroad to do full-time voluntary work for an authorized aid organization, you can benefit from your supernuation or veteran`s pension for up to 156 weeks. You must venture into international services before you leave. Under Article 8 of the agreement, the UK liaison body informs the US liaison body of the weeks or years in which a person is considered in accordance with UK law, as well as other information necessary to determine the amount of the person`s benefit. agreements and administrative agreements signed in London on 13 February 1984; It came into force on January 1, 1985, with the exception of Part III of the agreement that came into force on January 1, 1988. Modified by an endorsement and a supplementary administrative agreement signed in London on 6 June 1996, they came into force on 1 September 1997. New Zealand and the United Kingdom have reached an agreement on social security. The agreement includes the following benefits and pensions: unless U.S. national or U.K. national law authorizes it, information about a person transmitted by the other party pursuant to the agreement is used only for the purposes of the implementation of the agreement. This information received from a contracting party is, if applicable, subject to U.S.

national or U.K. national privacy and privacy legislation. Click here to read the „Benefits“ note in the U.S.: Benefits Retirement Disability Medicare Survivors SSI Online Resources Services FaQs Contact Us Forms Glossaires Glossary Publications GLOSSary FOIA Guidance Us Access Foia Guidance Open Government Plain Language Privacy Connect with Us Blog Facebook Twitter YouTube All Social Media Related Websites Benefits.gov MyMoney.gov Regulations.gov USA.gov Report Fraud, Waste or Abuse Office of the General Inspector This site is created and published at U.S. taxpayers` expense. A copy of the Social Order Welfare (Reciprocity with the United Kingdom) 1990 (the agreement) is available here on the New Zealand website: We advise you to discuss your tax debts with Inland Revenue (New Zealand). For the purposes of item (b), a person is considered to meet the second condition of contribution if, in each of the last two full calendar years prior to the calendar year in which the entitlement to benefits was invoked, at least two quarters of the insurance coverage is allocated in accordance with U.S. law.