Associated costs factsheet
Understand any associated costs you may expect when repairing your home through the FAP scheme.
If you’re a homeowner repairing your leaky home through the Financial Assistance Package, this factsheet will give you information on how to determine your approved repairs and costs.
Your homeowner agreement defines approved repairs as “the work described as approved repairs in the repair plan to repair the property.”
Betterment to your property will not qualify as approved repairs, and you will have to fund these developments yourself.
You will need to submit a repair plan for approval which resolves all weathertightness deficiencies identified in your assessor’s report.
You will receive a letter from us to confirm the repair plan has been approved. This forms the basis of the approved repairs.
Approved repairs describe construction work (that will receive contributions) and is normally carried out by the builder.
Sometimes you will have to make repair work that does not qualify as approved repairs.
This will usually relate to making parts of your property weathertight where repairs to those parts do not qualify for contributions under the FAP. This can include:
You can find a full list of approved costs in your homeowner agreement.
You can work out how contributions for your approved repairs will be calculated by choosing the relevant option below. With either option, any approved variations to the scope or contract price may result in your final payment being higher or lower than the final milestone amount stated in your payment plan.
Your payment plan addresses the scope of the approved repairs (usually the repair scope in the assessor’s report) and:
Your payment plan addresses the scope of the approved repairs (usually the repair
scope in the assessor’s report) but:
The basis of contribution is your quoted costs with some line items adjusted by us.
The final amount contributed towards your construction costs will reflect the total of your invoices for approved repair work, with adjustments made to those particular line items that were identified in the approved payment plan.
It will include contributions towards approved variations to the scope or contract price. The costs for any ‘other repairs’ (repairs that are not approved repairs) and betterment may also have some adjustments made to particular line items, if such adjustments were identified in the approved payment plan, and will not be included for contributions.
If any variations arise during your construction process that impact upon the scope of approved repairs, your approved costs may be adjusted.
This adjustment means subtracting the amount of monetary allowances you included in your approved payment plan from the actual cost of the variation work. The allowances could be:
View the variations and change requests fact sheet [link to AR118]
You associated costs include:
In all cases, your associated costs are considered separately to any quoted costs.
Each application you make for an associated cost will be assessed on its merits.
We will set your contribution costs. They will be based on what is reasonable for the approved repair work.
This information is published by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Chief Executive. It is a general guide only and, if used, does not relieve any person of the obligation to consider any matter to which the information relates according to the circumstances of the particular case. Expert advice may be required in specific circumstances. Where this information relates to assisting people:
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