
Some Kiwis stuck in Australia may lose superannuation payments
Pensioners struggling to get home are having their superannuation payments stopped.
Pensioners struggling to get home are having their superannuation payments stopped.
Communications outgoings are up to $89m from $57m.
'If we give up, say it's too hard, we are consigning a generation to the scrap heap.'
"By doing this ... many will be paying upwards of 50 per cent of their pension in rent."
Studies are split on the effectiveness of schemes similar to what Act is proposing.
The High Court Justice has reserved his decision.
However, job support numbers are still 20 per cent higher than the start of the pandemic.
Motels selected because they were best placed to provide for 'longer-term whānau needs'.
More than $13 billion was paid through the wage subsidy scheme.
'Increased public unease about housing special needs persons and families in motels.'
Are visitors missing out on beds because the homeless are taking them?
The quest for justice from a boot camp that made murderers out of troubled teens.
Urban growth corridor stretching from Auckland to the Bay of Islands moves closer.
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Ministry launches independent review after whistleblowers claim systemic problems.
The Government will directly contract motels for emergency accommodation it's announced.
The Greens have been critical of the scheme, saying the Govt should just raise benefits.
OPINION: It has huge financial consequences for the state, and public trust in Government.
People in emergency accommodation now charged 25 per cent of their income towards costs.
OPINION: At the very least, taxpayers deserve to know their money's being spent wisely.
Low levels of the vitamin can cause respiratory illnesses.
'There are babies now being born in motels. It breaks my heart.'
Distressing revelations about life in emergency housing continue to emerge.
Former politician arguing against High Court judge's decision in Court of Appeal.
The Government is now spending $1 million a day on emergency and transitional housing.
Her 6-year-old daughter developed lung disease and asthma at their previous state home.
It is up to the marae if they want to temporarily house the homeless in Northland.
'It's become like a battle of attrition,' he says of MSD's emergency benefit programme.
'Motels are no places for children,' a local social support advocate says.
"I didn't realise it was so good, and I'm grateful that the kids are getting this."