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Social Security Act 2018

Assistance - Accommodation supplement

66: Accommodation supplement: social housing exclusion

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"No accommodation help if you rent social housing"

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You are not eligible for an accommodation supplement if your accommodation costs include rent paid to Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities or a registered community housing provider for social housing. You are also not eligible if you make payments to Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities or the Crown at a concessionary rate, as defined in section 65AAA. Your accommodation costs are defined in this way to determine if you can get an accommodation supplement.

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Accommodation supplement

66Accommodation supplement: social housing exclusion

  1. A person is ineligible for an accommodation supplement (on the ground of the social housing exclusion) if the person’s accommodation costs (as defined in section 65AAA) include—

  2. rent paid in respect of premises let by or on behalf of Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities; or
    1. rent paid in respect of premises let by or on behalf of a registered community housing provider (but only if that person has been allocated those premises as social housing); or
      1. payments, required to be made under a mortgage security to Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities or the Crown in right of Te Puni Kōkiri, that MSD believes are required to be made at a concessionary rate.

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        Notes
        • Section 66 heading: replaced, on , by section 6(1) of the Social Assistance Legislation (Accommodation Supplement and Income-related Rent) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 27).
        • Section 66(1): amended, on , by section 6(2) of the Social Assistance Legislation (Accommodation Supplement and Income-related Rent) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 27).
        • Section 66(1)(a): amended, on , by section 33 of the Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities Act 2019 (2019 No 50).
        • Section 66(1)(c): amended, on , by section 33 of the Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities Act 2019 (2019 No 50).
        • Section 66(2): repealed, on , by section 6(3) of the Social Assistance Legislation (Accommodation Supplement and Income-related Rent) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 27).
        • Section 66(3): repealed, on , by section 6(3) of the Social Assistance Legislation (Accommodation Supplement and Income-related Rent) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 27).