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Instrument amending Ministerial Directions - Social Housing 2025
19 December 2025.
This instrument amends the Ministerial Direction on Eligibility for Social Housing and the Ministerial Direction on Continued Eligibility for Social Housing, in response to the amendments made through the Social Assistance Legislation (Accommodation Supplement and Income-related Rent) Amendment Act 2025 (the Amendment Act).
This instrument amends the Ministerial directions to ensure that the amendments in the Amendment Act regarding the treatment of payments from boarders and renters and the new process for calculating accommodation income are appropriately captured in the Ministerial directions.
To achieve this, the following amendments are required to each of the Ministerial directions:
- insertion and amendments to relevant definitions to ensure they operate as intended;
- excluding both accommodation income and 38% of any amount received by a person for board and lodging from the definition of ‘income’, to ensure that board and rent received is treated consistently with contributions from additional residents; and
- including weekly accommodation income in Step 2 of the Calculation of Affordability Formula, to ensure that the Affordability Formula is consistent with how accommodation income will be treated when calculating the rate of accommodation supplement from 2 March 2026.