Transfers if taking other leave first

If you’re transferring all your payments to your spouse or partner but you’re taking other paid leave before parental leave, you can delay their payments if they also take paid leave before their payments start.

If you’re transferring some of your payments, you can take paid leave and some of the payments first while your spouse or partner keeps working, then transfer the rest of the entitlement over.

If neither of you take paid leave before your payments start, you’ll get payments once the baby is born.

Ty and Aria are parents of baby Wiremu. Wiremu was born on 6 January. Aria and Ty both meet the work requirements for parental leave payments, and they decide to transfer the payments to Ty. Aria takes 4 weeks of annual holidays when Wiremu is born and will go back to work in February. Ty will look after Wiremu after that.

Ty wants to start getting parental leave payments after Aria has gone back to work. To do this they can decide that:

Aria will finish her annual holidays on 2 February

Aria will take 1 week of parental leave and parental leave pay between 3–9 February

Ty will start parental leave payments on 10 February, the same day Aria returns to work. He will get 25 weeks of payments.

Or they can decide that:

Aria and Ty will both take paid leave until 2 February

Aria will return to work and Ty’s transferred parental leave payments will then start on 3 February.