Community Costs Programme
Unofficial consolidated version of the Community Costs Programme
-- as at 4 September 2026
Hon David Benson-Pope
Minister for Social Development and Employment
At Wellington this 15th day of March 2006
Pursuant to section 124(1)(d) of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister for Social Development and Employment establishes and approves the following welfare programme for special assistance.
This welfare programme is saved by clause 21 of Schedule 1 of the Social Security Act 2018 as if it were a special assistance programme approved and established under section 101 of the Act.
Contents
5. Application of the Social Security Act
6. Eligibility for community costs payments
8. Application form must be completed
9. CC Payments towards community costs
10. Amounts and limits of CC payments
11. Period for which CC payments payable
12. CC payments for certain treatment programmes may be backdated
Gazette notice: Number 1831, dated 23 March 2006
