Two former sex workers who have been without an income since a six-month job scheme ended on May 21 were granted unemployment benefits yesterday.

Police are worried by a rise in underage prostitution in downtown Auckland, where girls as young as 12 are selling themselves for sex.

It's time to kill the middle class welfare boondoggles.

Police have been called in after a Govt "sting" of secondhand appliance dealers found some allegedly conniving with beneficiaries to deceive Work and Income.

A request for cash to resolve a privacy complaint against Paula Bennett suggests the politician could have been at fault, a lawyer says.