John Armstrong writes that the working group's prescription for change may be blinkered by ideology such as time limits.

Controversial new data suggests that more than half of all sole parents on the domestic purposes benefit first became beneficiaries as teens.

A growing number of unemployed couples are living apart so one can claim the domestic purposes benefit to get more money, say beneficiary advocates.

New Zealand's worst youth offenders will get million-dollar beds in the country's newest youth prison.

A former children's home supervisor convicted of sexually abusing a young girl in his care has escaped a jail sentence by fleeing to England.