ACC is using a secret computer model to predict how long clients will be on its books.

A welfare cheat investigator created fake beneficiary identities to steal nearly $360k.

What are parties promising on social housing?

Beneficiaries call for higher benefits and an end to Work and Income's "toxic culture".

Residents struggling to find somewhere to live. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Parties explain their tackling-inequality strategy as election looms.

MSD rules suggest Peters was not required to confirm his relationship status annually.

Maori Party and Labour call for probe after UN investigation into NZ abuse record.

PM Bill English is confident his ministers did not leak news of Peters super payments.

Less than a week before residents are forced out. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

An Auckland marae wants big business to help struggling families, like this family of 11.

Govt has now bought six motels to provide emergency housing.

Party representatives will speak on their policies at the forum.

Ruth Dyson regrets not asking questions about infamous youth justice facility.

A new game lets players imagine how hard life choices are for New Zealand's working poor.

Elder abuse is happening in Tauranga, social agencies say.

More people are subject to benefit sanctions than this time last year.

Turei stood in two elections in 1993 and 1996 while she was receiving a benefit.

The wait list for a state house has risen by 40 per cent in just a year.

Tukituki Labour candidate Anna Lorck says Housing NZ has not lived up to its promises.

Village offering transitional housing for the homeless has stirred neighbours' opposition.

A high-profile building housing six tenants has been sold in Rotorua.

The Green Party is promising the biggest changes to the welfare state in a generation.

Higher security rolled out in Napier CBD to address concern over begging.

Govt is holding firm on its decision not to hold an inquiry into abuse in state care.

Thousands of solo parents are being penalised up to $200 for not naming the other parent.

The Government has put the cost of a lifetime of social housing at $16.4b

Sallies' foodbank feel pressure from families escaping Auckland's housing woes.

Redevelopment and methamphetamine were two key reasons for evictions from state houses.

A domestic violence advocacy group is calling for an inquiry into the Family Court.