The levy, a $50 charge on offenders to be paid at time of sentencing, had collected $3.7 million nationally in the first year, Justice Minister Simon Power announced recently.
It had been projected that 42% of offenders would pay the levy in the first year but in fact 66% had.
Those services included a court attendance grant of $100 per day, up to 30 hours of trauma counselling, a discretionary grant of $3000 for family members of a victim killed due to a criminal act and an expanded travel assistance scheme for victims.
A breakdown of the levies for Otago, including Dunedin, Balclutha, Queenstown and Oamaru, showed $210,150 in levies had been imposed in the first 12 months, of which $132,465 had been paid.
There was $23,470 in levies overdue with $43,877 within the 28 days for payment.
Nationally, $2.2 million was still to paid, including those who had 28 days to pay, those paying reparation first and those in prison.
Mr Power said the Courts and Criminal Matters Bill passed earlier this month gave priority to the payment of reparation and the offender levy to victims and would ensure that offenders who refused to pay would be held to account.
It had cost $1.1 million to collect the levy so far and it was now estimated that in future it would cost $1.3 million annually.
