The Government is now spending $1 million a day on emergency and transitional housing.

'It's become like a battle of attrition,' he says of MSD's emergency benefit programme.

"I didn't realise it was so good, and I'm grateful that the kids are getting this."

In the year up to last December, 7630 new jobs were created in the public sector.

A buffer against Covid-19 uncertainty.

One mother drove from Te Awamutu to donate gifts to the Auckland City Mission.

The Government says a six-year cut-off for complaints against the state could be scrapped.

Report shows the number of people passing through care possibly six times higher.

Govt needs to lift benefits and build more houses, Children's Commissioner says.

Frances Tagaloa also spoke of the difficulties for Pacific victims in seeking justice.

Almost 23,000 people have come to the end of the payment without finding a job.

Porirua City Council excluded rates revenue from its application.

IDEA Services is still reviewing how it provides vocational services for the disabled.

Review of IHC services draws damning submission from parents of intellectually disabled.

Solo mum 'Ana Pahulu battled poverty raising her child. University changed their lives.

Labour would bring back an allowance for sole parents 10 years after it was axed.

Carmel Sepuloni wants to prepare people for work - but doesn't want to make it compulsory.

Getting a job is hard for minorities and migrants. Covid-19 is making it worse.

The number has risen by 12 per cent, the highest increase ever in the past 24 years.

The benefit for Covid jobless is worth twice as much as the existing unemployment benefit.