Accommodation Benefit - standard rates (current)
Below are the standard rates of Accommodation Benefit for eligible Student Allowance recipients, excluding sole parents, from 1 January 2025.
Accommodation Benefit is a non-taxable weekly payment.
Ashburton District - Auckland
Location | 2025 |
Ashburton District | $60.00 |
Auckland | $60.00 |
Buller District
Location | 2025 |
Buller District | $60.00 |
Carterton District - Clutha District
Location | 2025 |
Carterton District | $60.00 |
Central Hawke's Bay District | $60.00 |
Central Otago District | $60.00 |
Chatham Islands Territory | $60.00 |
Christchurch City | $60.00 |
Clutha District | $60.00 |
Dunedin City
Location | 2025 |
Dunedin City | $60.00 |
Far North District
Location | 2025 |
Far North District | $60.00 |
Gisborne District - Grey District
Location | 2025 |
Gisborne District | $60.00 |
Gore District | $60.00 |
Grey District | $60.00 |
Hamilton City - Hurunui District
Location | 2025 |
Hamilton City | $60.00 |
Hastings District | $60.00 |
Hauraki District | $60.00 |
Horowhenua District | $60.00 |
Hurunui District | $60.00 |
Invercargill City
Location | 2025 |
Invercargill City | $60.00 |
Kaikōura District - Kawerau District
Location | 2025 |
Kaikōura District | $60.00 |
Kaipara District | $60.00 |
Kāpiti Coast District | $60.00 |
Kawerau District | $60.00 |
Lower Hutt City
Location | 2025 |
Lower Hutt City | $60.00 |
Mackenzie District - Mount Maunganui
Location | 2025 |
Mackenzie District | $60.00 |
Manawatū District | $60.00 |
Marlborough District | $60.00 |
Masterton District | $60.00 |
Matamata-Piako District | $60.00 |
Mount Maunganui | $60.00 |
Napier City - New Plymouth District
Location | 2025 |
Napier City | $60.00 |
Nelson City | $60.00 |
New Plymouth District | $60.00 |
Ōpōtiki District - Ōtorohanga Distirct
Location | 2025 |
Ōpōtiki District | $60.00 |
Ōtorohanga District | $60.00 |
Palmerston North City - Porirua City
Location | 2025 |
Palmerston North City | $60.00 |
Porirua City | $60.00 |
Queenstown-Lakes District
Location | 2025 |
Queenstown-Lakes District | $60.00 |
Rangitīkei District - Ruapehu District
Location | 2025 |
Rangitīkei District | $60.00 |
Rotorua District | $60.00 |
Ruapehu District | $60.00 |
Selwyn District - Stratford District
Location | 2025 |
Selwyn District | $60.00 |
South Taranaki District | $60.00 |
South Waikato District | $60.00 |
South Wairarapa District | $60.00 |
Southland District | $60.00 |
Stratford District | $60.00 |
Tararua District - Timaru District
Location | 2025 |
Tararua District | $60.00 |
Tasman District | $60.00 |
Taupō District | $60.00 |
Tauranga City | $60.00 |
Thames-Coromandel District | $60.00 |
Timaru District | $60.00 |
Upper Hutt City
Location | 2025 |
Upper Hutt City | $60.00 |
Waikato District - Whangarei District
Location | 2025 |
Waikato District | $60.00 |
Waimakariri District | $60.00 |
Waimate District | $60.00 |
Waipa District | $60.00 |
Wairoa District | $60.00 |
Waitaki District | $60.00 |
Waitomo District | $60.00 |
Wellington City | $60.00 |
Western Bay of Plenty | $60.00 |
Westland District | $60.00 |
Whakatāne District | $60.00 |
Whanganui District | $60.00 |
Whangārei District | $60.00 |
Previous rates
For previous rates see:
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2024
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2023
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2022
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2021
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2020
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2019
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2018 - from 1 April 2018
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2018 - from 1 January 2018
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2017
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2016
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2015
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2014
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2013
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2012
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2011
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2010
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2009
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2008
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2007
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2006
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2005
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2004
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2003
- Accommodation Benefit rates for 2001 and 2002
- Accommodation Benefit rates prior to 2001
