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Govt prepares for hundreds of thousands of new benefit applications
The MSD is bracing for a massive increase in welfare applications.
The MSD is bracing for a massive increase in welfare applications.
One of the biggest information gaps we have is real-time data on unemployment.
More than $17m will be paid back to the Govt from businesses that took up the scheme.
"It's almost as if a tsunami has happened," says the CEO of a budgeting service.
Winston Peters said the case had caused "considerable stress".
Fewer services calls for creative community solutions. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
The couple never set out to become social housing providers, but say it's a "win-win".
Ministers of Social Development and Education front up to Parliament committee.
Thought shopping was hard under lockdown? Try being a single parent.
Her boss applied for the scheme under her name after she was made redundant.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gives the latest on the Covid-19 lockdown.
"Nobody is going to come out the other side without needing some support."
Unemployment is expected to jump significantly – as is the number of benefit seekers.
New facility for rough sleepers during Covid-19, demand on soup kitchen doubles.
"They are freaked out that everything is closing down and they'll be stuck on the street."
Students trying to rush home as part-time jobs disappear or flatmates desert them.
School closures effective immediately, told only via media.
People who have to self isolate but have run out of sick days will have costs covered.
The benefit increases are the largest since Bill English's one-off boost of $25 a week.
The Government is taking steps to challenge rising youth unemployment rates.
Staff failed to keep the man safe and "had many opportunities arose to do so", HDC finds.
On any social indicator you care to name the welfare business is running at full steam.
They say they're flatmates. Work and Income says they're lovers. Now they owe $150k.
Figures reveal the Government spent nearly $50m on emergency housing in just three months.
New figures reveal an increase of more than 15,000 people.
Kathryn died in September with a fraud conviction and a $117,000 debt hanging over her.
Vulnerable people priced out of the market as people look further afield than Wellington.
Plan comes as solo dad and son, 5, spend a second Christmas living in a tent in city park.
It's one of Auckland's biggest changes since World War II and it's in almost every suburb.
Jacinda Ardern is being asked to drop penalties for beneficiaries who start relationships.