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Should we cut taxes or spend more?

Anger at $15m family benefits ad blitz

Clawbacks squeeze the pips from a beneficiary's labour

Working mother-of-four gets help

Room to move - and money to spend

Poverty trap snapping shut on children

Carer: 'The last thing you feel like is an angel'

Family carers' payment explored

<EM>Obituary:</EM> Keitha Weir

<EM>Garth George:</EM> Time for political parties to concentrate on the basics

<EM>Colin James:</EM> State income assistance can be a double-edged sword

Benefits to rise 2.7pc in line with inflation

Child left in car while mum played pokies

<EM>Brian Fallow:</EM> Working on those mums

Special rule for same-sex couples

<EM>Alison Blaiklock:</EM> Be ashamed of the way we treat kids

Government 'gives with one hand and takes with the other'

End of the free market for mortgages

NZ's child poverty rate one of highest

Homeless welcome ID cards

Big step forward to a job

Dark-side warning for new family body on opening day

<EM>John Armstrong:</EM> Labour's new Gospel - take up thy bed and work

Cash bait to get beneficiaries into work

<EM>Editorial:</EM> Single benefit tinkering a waste of time

Going solo is no fun

Move to single benefit announced

Single benefit welcomed but care for invalids urged

Sole benefit planned to save $70m

<EM>Colin James:</EM> Cabinet’s thinker gradually wins over the doubters

Tasman leaders cement friendship

Government to announce details of welfare reform

Caravan park haven for misfits

Swindler stole IDs of dead

Should we cut taxes or spend more?

Anger at $15m family benefits ad blitz

Clawbacks squeeze the pips from a beneficiary's labour

Working mother-of-four gets help

Room to move - and money to spend

Poverty trap snapping shut on children

Carer: 'The last thing you feel like is an angel'

Family carers' payment explored

<EM>Obituary:</EM> Keitha Weir

<EM>Garth George:</EM> Time for political parties to concentrate on the basics

<EM>Colin James:</EM> State income assistance can be a double-edged sword

Benefits to rise 2.7pc in line with inflation

Child left in car while mum played pokies

<EM>Brian Fallow:</EM> Working on those mums

Special rule for same-sex couples

<EM>Alison Blaiklock:</EM> Be ashamed of the way we treat kids

Government 'gives with one hand and takes with the other'

End of the free market for mortgages

NZ's child poverty rate one of highest

Homeless welcome ID cards

Big step forward to a job

Dark-side warning for new family body on opening day

<EM>John Armstrong:</EM> Labour's new Gospel - take up thy bed and work

Cash bait to get beneficiaries into work

<EM>Editorial:</EM> Single benefit tinkering a waste of time

Going solo is no fun

Move to single benefit announced

Single benefit welcomed but care for invalids urged

Sole benefit planned to save $70m

<EM>Colin James:</EM> Cabinet’s thinker gradually wins over the doubters

Tasman leaders cement friendship

Government to announce details of&nbsp;welfare reform

Caravan park haven for misfits

Swindler stole IDs of dead

Government to announce details of welfare reform