Services provided through another agency

Disability Allowance is not paid for items or services fully funded or provided through another state agency such as:

• learning costs of children with disabilities, as the educational costs for children and students with disabilities are funded through the Ministry of Education
• speech-therapy for school-age children funded through the Ministry of Education
• items/services fully funded, subsidised, or provided through Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora. This includes costs that Health New Zealand started funding then stopped because they were no longer considered necessary

Disability Allowance can be paid to cover the portion of the client’s costs that are not met by ACC or another accident insurer. In some cases a client may have other costs that are not covered by ACC, or costs due to another disability not caused by an accident. These costs can be considered for Disability Allowance.

Note in circumstances where costs are incurred over the amount that is funded or provided through another agency, Disability Allowance can be considered for the portion of costs that is not funded.