Debate on having children
Danyl at Dim post blogs in response: But the point here is that having a couple of children shouldn’t be a ‘bad personal choice’ for everyone not earning a high income. It’s not a couple of children....
View ArticleHomeless
Stuff reports: Ms Ngatai was evicted from the Charles Cr house, where she lived with her partner and eight children, on January 26, following a tenancy tribunal hearing which found she had not paid...
View ArticleACC and Welfare
The Herald reports: The proportion of long-term ACC clients moving on to benefits has surged since the corporation adopted a tough new stance, which has fuelled allegations that they are being forced...
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Large welfare families
The HoS reports: Taxpayers are forking out $2000-plus a week to a select group of benefit-dependent parents with more than 10 children. Official figures show that twelve families on welfare have 10 or...
View ArticleA good initiative
Olivia Carville at The Press reports: Two Christchurch construction companies are hiring beneficiaries for the city’s rebuild. Fletcher Building and Hawkins Construction have embedded Work and Income...
View ArticleDom Post on the sickness beneficiary
The Dom Post editorial: Labour leader David Shearer tells a good story. Unfortunately, the punchline is missing. If he can deliver it, voters might start listening to Labour again, but till he does the...
View ArticleLabour’s welfare split
Claire Trevett reports: Mr Shearer was also expected to be criticised – it is understood some caucus members were upset about Mr Shearer using the example of a person on the sickness benefit to state...
View ArticleLabour on the in work tax credit
My Herald column: If Labour vote for Catherine Delahunty’s bill, it will give National a very significant weapon to use at the 2014 election. They will portray it as making it more attractive for...
View ArticleDrug testing for job seekers
Paula Bennett has announced: Beneficiaries with work expectations will face sanctions if they refuse to apply for drug-tested jobs, says Social Development Minister Paula Bennett. “Welfare reforms are...
View ArticleTrans-Tasman on Key and income inequality
Trans-tasman reports: John Key showed his mastery of the political process when, with one verbal swipe in Parliament, he demolished what appeared to be a promising line of attack by Opposition parties...
View ArticleAgain – not given full details
Stuff reports: Auckland schoolboy Peniata Junior Endermann is just 16 years old but already works 25 hours a week to help keep his siblings in school and provide the basic necessities for his family....
View ArticleLabour MPs showing beneficiaries how to budget
I think it is superb that a group of Labour MPs are living on $2.25 of food a day, for a week, to demonstrate how you can eat cheaply. Their potato and spinach curry recipe should be displayed in all...
View Article$60 a week more to be on a benefit
Parliament Today reports: The Income Tax (Universalisation of In-work Tax Credit) Amendment Bill was defeated at its first reading by 61 to 60 with National, ACT and United Future opposed. This bill...
View ArticleThey want welfare for millionaires!
Ben Heather at Stuff reports: A $2 billion Government overhaul, including more state homes and universal child support, is needed to fight child poverty, a report from the children’s commissioner...
View ArticleChristchurch jobs
There’s been a lot of stories about firms in Christchurch having problems finding employees. One in The Press today is: Christchurch baker Diane McPherson has had an “absolute nightmare” trying to find...
View ArticleFree contraception uptake
Claire Trevett at NZ Herald reports: Low uptake negates fears beneficiaries and daughters being pushed into free scheme, says minister’s office. Only 35 women took up the Government’s offer of free...
View ArticleMaybe it is the dads that should be sterilised!
Joanne Carroll at NZ Herald reports: One rogue 19-year-old is a liable father to 13 kids to different mums. A source has confirmed the man is named on the birth certificates of 13 children, and is...
View ArticleWhy not inform people of whom is right?
Stuff reports: It’s another case of she said, she said. Labour MP Jacinda Ardern was yesterday bemoaning record benefit numbers during National’s reign. DPB, sickness and invalid beneficiary numbers...
View ArticleUS Disability Benefits
In case you needed convincing about the need for welfare reform, this story from the United States should help convince you. It was an exclusive story for Planet Money on National Public Radio. It has...
View ArticleEight adults, none working
The Herald reports: A state house with 19 people living in it has been identified as one of the homes receiving more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded benefits each year. The Housing New Zealand...
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