The Privacy Commissioner will investigate Social Development Minister Paula Bennett after the release of details of two mothers' incomes.

Paula Bennett has asked her officials to look into setting up a loan to help solo parents cover their extra study costs.

Paula Bennett says one of the solo mothers whose benefit details she made public is not angry and didn't feel her privacy had been breached.

Hundreds of readers have expressed their support for Paula Bennett's disclosure of two solo mothers' benefit amounts.

Paula Bennett told Parliament that, apart from reading the Privacy Commission's website, she did not seek any advice before releasing details of two solo mothers' benefits.

Details of benefits received by two solo mothers have been made public by the Government after the pair criticised cutbacks.

This has been an especially awful week for Phil Goff.

An unemployed man used by Labour as an example of someone who would benefit from its dole policy owns properties worth hundreds of thousands.

Phil Goff says his call for the dole to be paid to redundant workers, regardless of their partners' incomes, would be a temporary measure for 'low and middle income' New Zealanders.