COMMENT: The lifetime cost of those at risk of welfare dependency is important to know.

With incomes double that of the 1970s why are five-times more Kiwis on benefits?

Detection tools were unable to discover welfare cheat investigator's fraud.

Jacinda Ardern will pay sole parents more in real terms than any time since at least 1980.

Jacinda Ardern wants to reduce child poverty. Simon Collins explores how she can do it.

OPINION: One of the most urgent tasks facing the new Government is welfare reform.

The Government says a beneficiary with bank loans was not entitled to welfare payments.

US Government analysis found Kiwi Welfare State to be a world first

Daily queues of beneficiaries are seeking help just to know their entitlements.

The Greens had their worst week in politics since Rod Donald died. It could get worse.

Metiria Turei has no regrets about admitting she committed benefit fraud.

COMMENT:Metiria Turei has at least earned the right to explain her welfare policy.

COMMENT: Will the Greens be rewarded or punished for co-leader Metiria Turei's confession.

Green MP Metiria Turei says she will not dob in welfare cheats to authorities.

EDITORIAL: Turei cannot say she had a moral right to commit benefit fraud.

COMMENT: Time to hand out tough sentences to welfare-bludger criminals.

Solo mothers who've undergone major breast surgery are calling for changes in benefits.

COMMENT: Big data on benefits could save taxpayers' money - and do some good too.

COMMENT: The Government hopes 'social investment' will measure its spending by results.

Footage shows the toddler wandering lost before being helped to return home.

Most of those using Government fund to leave Auckland have settled down.

COMMENT: Boomers not the only ones to complain about, writes Brian Rudman.

A $200 a week payment for families with young children is being proposed by Gareth Morgan.

More than 2800 needy children are already being sponsored by the charity Variety's Kiwi Kids scheme, launched in 2013, and a further 600 are on its waiting list.

A second wife in a polygamous may be regarded as a solo parent and entitled to a solo-parent benefit.

Papakura High School has a falling roll, and as far as results go, it's among the worst schools in the country. But there is hope.

Ruthless, reckless and surging rage: a mother details the struggle of looking after the severely autistic daughter she later killed.

Helping someone in an emergency? Yes. Helping someone for a lifetime? No. Enough is enough.

An Auckland beneficiary is protesting this morning as she fights eviction from the two-bedroom state home she's lived in for 21 years.

How likely young New Zealanders are to be "on track" at age 21 has been mapped using a powerful government database.