Rough sleeping all but eliminated in NZ in six weeks of lockdown
The Covid crisis has had a silver lining: Nearly every rough sleeper has been housed.
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200,000 Kiwis in Australia with no social security
About 650,000 Kiwis live across the Ditch and many have little or no access to welfare.
Urgent income support changes in Govt info dump
MSD made major, urgent changes to its model for benefit of clients, staff in pandemic.
Numbers soar: 1000 people a day went on benefit during April
Demand for food parcels also skyrocketed by more than 200 per cent in just two months.
Some wage subsidy recipients' names could be kept secret
MSD says it has yet to make publicly available details of individual claims for subsidy.
Private schools charging full fees claim $11.7m in Govt wage subsidy
Private schools say the loss of international students during lockdown has hit them hard.
Big law firms don't need subsidy: Simon Bridges
Opposition Leader says major firms do not need the Government's wage subsidy.
Govt prepares for hundreds of thousands of new benefit applications
The MSD is bracing for a massive increase in welfare applications.
Analysis: Who are New Zealand's new jobless?
One of the biggest information gaps we have is real-time data on unemployment.
$17m being paid back: Govt eyes legal action as businesses flout subsidy rules
More than $17m will be paid back to the Govt from businesses that took up the scheme.
'Tsunami' of demand for food parcels, families wait four hours in Māngere
"It's almost as if a tsunami has happened," says the CEO of a budgeting service.
Winston Peters' privacy breached but claim fails because leaker could not be found
Winston Peters said the case had caused "considerable stress".
Local Focus: Community comes together for the homeless in lockdown
Fewer services calls for creative community solutions. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Aussie investors end life in rat race, boost Whanganui social housing
The couple never set out to become social housing providers, but say it's a "win-win".
Sorry parents - schools won't re-open as soon as lockdown lifts
Ministers of Social Development and Education front up to Parliament committee.
'A nightmare': Single parents told to leave children in supermarket carpark
Thought shopping was hard under lockdown? Try being a single parent.
Broke and desperate: Govt accused of hypocrisy over jobless immigrants
There are 400,000 people in New Zealand on temporary visas.
Now you can check if your boss has applied for wage subsidy scheme
Ministry of Social Development website has opened a search option on wage subsidies.
Woman says employer applied for her wage subsidy - after she was sacked
Her boss applied for the scheme under her name after she was made redundant.
Day 12: Will lockdown be extended?
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gives the latest on the Covid-19 lockdown.
Virus could force 100,000 Kiwis to join benefit queue, many for the first time
"Nobody is going to come out the other side without needing some support."
Govt to bolster MSD for likely benefit numbers spike
Unemployment is expected to jump significantly – as is the number of benefit seekers.
New self-contained units for Wellington's homeless
New facility for rough sleepers during Covid-19, demand on soup kitchen doubles.
Coronavirus: Homeless being placed in motels for lockdown
"They are freaked out that everything is closing down and they'll be stuck on the street."
Travel deadline extended to Friday as stranded students struggle to get home by lockdown
Students trying to rush home as part-time jobs disappear or flatmates desert them.
Coronavirus: Schools close indefinitely with just minutes' notice
School closures effective immediately, told only via media.
Coronavirus support: $25/week for beneficiaries, help for working families
People who have to self isolate but have run out of sick days will have costs covered.
One year on: Lives put on hold by the mosque attacks
A chef shot in the mosque attacks last year fears for the future of his young family.
Political Roundup: 'Significant' increases in benefits not enough
Many experts have been campaigning for much larger increases than the 3 per cent rise.
PM announces larger-than-usual increases for social welfare benefits
The benefit increases are the largest since Bill English's one-off boost of $25 a week.
A tenth of young Kiwis not in employment or training. What is Govt doing about it?
The Government is taking steps to challenge rising youth unemployment rates.
Autistic man sexually assaulted but service caring for him did nothing
Staff failed to keep the man safe and "had many opportunities arose to do so", HDC finds.
Mike Hosking: Misery is a booming business
On any social indicator you care to name the welfare business is running at full steam.
Flatmates charged $150k after Work and Income say they are lovers
They say they're flatmates. Work and Income says they're lovers. Now they owe $150k.