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.

People off work due to injury are likely to suffer high rates of depression and suicide, new research suggests.

A teaching method for caregivers of children from broken homes is "a bit like Supernanny" says the boss of a scheme aimed at coaching foster parents.

The number of young people aged 20 to 24 with no income almost trebled between 1996 and 2006, according to new figures.

Paula Bennett lauded a professor she appointed to a welfare reform group - then confused him with a namesake with wildly opposing views.

The Govt has cancelled pumping $430m into superannuation, tax credits and benefits that would have, in effect, been compensation for higher tobacco taxes.

Paula Bennett has denied she offered money to a beneficiary who laid a privacy complaint against her.

Australian Opposition leader Tony Abbott is considering banning the dole for the under-30s.

Australia's Opposition Leader says cutting the dole for people under 30 would reduce the need for skilled migrants to staff mines.