AGAINST THE CURRENT: welfare

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NATIONAL RETURNS TO BENEFICIARY BASHING

With its polling numbers underwater, National has returned to beneficiary bashing in a desperate attempt to shore up its electoral support. ...

The Minister of S ocial Development Louise Upston wants to 'help' young people by denying them a benefi t. LOUISE UPSTON'S det...

The Government is engaged in a war against the poor, pandering to prejudices that they are living the high life on a benefit that barely all...

While Labour and the Green's might be critical of the coalition government's new sanctions regime for beneficiaries, the sanction fr...

The National-led coalition government has launched another attack on beneficiaries. The victims of neoliberalism have, apparently, 'obli...

The National Party's welfare plan for young jobseekers has been met with fierce criticism from its political opponents. The problem is m...

The Labour Government's plan to introduce unemployment insurance will create a two tier welfare system and leave low paid workers and be...

Food banks up and down the country are reporting a record demand on their services this Christmas. It provides yet more evidence that incom...

The Minister of Social Development, Carmel Sepuloni, has rejected appeals from community groups to provide financial relief for beneficiari...

The mainstream media has just woken up to the fact that many beneficiaries are not receiving the full $20 benefit increase promised in the M...

Some enthusiastic commentators think that the benefit increase announced in Budget 2021 represents Labour fighting back against its neoliber...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has rejected widespread calls to alleviate the growing level of poverty and desperation by increasing core w...

Carmel Sepuloni : Tinkering with welfare and the victims are beneficiaries. With little fanfare, Labour announces its welfare policy -...

Even as the queues lengthen at the food banks, Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni thinks the recent minuscule $25 increase in c...

James Shaw : Hungry? Why not try an online yoga class! While Green co-leader James Shaw worries about people getting bored in their ...

The majority of hardship grants are for food. Work and Income have issued sixty-seven percent more hardship grants over the past year...

Jacinda Ardern this week backed the continuance of sanctions against the small number of beneficiaries who fail drug tests, even thoug...