More than $20 million will be made available to budgeting services over the next four years, the Government says.
Prime Minister John Key announced the new funding at the Newtown Budgeting and Advocacy Service in Wellington this afternoon.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett was also at the pre-budget announcement.
In total, an extra $22 million will be poured into budgeting services around New Zealand over the next four years, Mr Key said.
"People have to make sure that they carefully manage their money and lots of people end up coming into budgeting services because they either have considerable debt or they're unaware of the circumstance they are in or they are new to New Zealand and they don't understand a lot of the issues involved in terms of where they can borrow money and how that can work," Mr Key said.