# Work and Income - Web Capture - Seniors Support Overview

**Document ID:** doc-0100
**Source organisation:** Work and Income
**Publication date:** Undated (living guidance)
**Publisher’s stated update date:** 2 July 2026
**Independently checked:** 8 October 2026
**Evidence:** Official guidance; Official primary

## Summary

Work and Income directory of additional help for seniors, linking housing costs, disability expenses, essential living costs, health discounts and residential care support.

## Key facts

- Accommodation Supplement can help with rent, board or home ownership costs.
- Disability Allowance supports ongoing disability costs; Temporary Additional Support helps with essential living costs.
- Community Services Card can reduce health care and public transport costs.
- Residential Care Subsidy and Residential Care Loan have separate eligibility and assessment processes.
- A benefit recipient with a partner in residential care or in public hospital over 13 weeks may qualify for Special Disability Allowance.

## Next step

Use Work and Income’s Check What You Might Get tool, then follow the relevant benefit page for its application and evidence requirements.

## Sources and scope

[Work and Income: official resource](https://www.workandincome.govt.nz/eligibility/seniors/other-payments) — accessed 8 October 2026.

Undated living guidance; source update shown as 2 July 2026. This is a support directory; each linked payment has its own criteria.

This brief is an original paraphrase of the linked public resources, not a verbatim web capture.