Part 5: Payments to People in Specific Circumstances
Unofficial consolidated version of the Special Needs Grants Programme
-- as at 4 September 2026
Analysis
14A People in need of Emergency Housing (revoked)
14AA Security Deposits (revoked)
14B Emergency housing contribution (revoked)
14C Calculating emergency housing contribution (revoked)
15.1A Grants for Re-establishment costs not to be used for Emergency Housing
15.1. Refugees, Protected Persons, Afghan Interpreters and Afghan Evacuees
15.3 Long Term Patients Resettling in the Community
15.4 Steps to Freedom Re-establishment Payments for Released, Sentenced and Remand Prisoners
15.5 Emergency Relocation Costs
15.6 Young persons leaving care to live independently
15A Persons released from custody under section 128A of the Immigration Act 1987 (revoked)
15C Applicants awaiting the outcome of an international child custody and access dispute
15D Applicants in New Zealand under relocation arrangement
15E Victims of people trafficking
16 Beneficiaries Transferring Between Benefits
16A Transfer compensation grants
17 Benefit Non-entitlement Periods and Stand downs, etc.
17.1 Grants during stand downs, strikes, application process, or pre-benefit activities
17.4 More than one Grant may be made
17.5 Persons becoming sick during Non-entitlement Period
17A Grants for Driver Licences
