Student Support Payment

There is a ākonga-support payment available, for eligible supervisors whose ākonga are submitting work regularly. This payment is provided by the Ministry of Education and administered by Te Kura.

How to qualify

To qualify for the student-support payment, you must be the supervisor currently named on the ākonga profile and your ākonga must meet all of the following criteria:

Who isn’t covered

There is no payment for supervisors of:

Payment times

Payments are made twice a year by direct credit into your nominated bank account. If all the requirements are met, you will be paid in July for the first half of the year (February to the end of June) and in December for the second half of the year (July to the end of November).

Payments for the first half of the year will not be made after the end of December of the same year. Payments for the second half of the year will not be made after May in the following year.

Half-year payment amounts

If all the requirements are met, the half-year payments are as follows:

Receiving the payment

The payment will be made to the current supervisor of a ākonga at the time the payment is run. We are unfortunately unable to split any payments if there has been a change in supervisor during the payment period.

If we haven’t got your bank account details, please fill in the Student Support Payment form or call us on 0800 65 99 88.