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.

Paula Bennett has attacked the integrity of a solo mother who is asking for $15,000 to settle a privacy complaint against the minister.

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.

Families-based social services initiative Whanau Ora will receive $134.3 million in funding over the next four years, Prime Minister John Key announced today.

Winz staff told a woman with a university bachelor degree to "dumb down" her CV before applying for jobs.

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.