Hundreds of people displaced by Tuesday's earthquake have set up camp at Christchurch welfare centres and more are flooding in.

About 300,000 welfare beneficiaries who are judged capable of work will face a day of reckoning tomorrow with the release of a report.

A consortium of North Shore doctors has a radical proposal to use health professionals to help sickness and invalid beneficiaries back to work.

In the run-up to Christmas at least 12 Auckland Chinese restaurants received surprise visits from IRD officers.

Two studies of human development, one launched in the 1970s and the other from earlier this year, reveal how different society is today.

The ACC will ensure money is the least of the worries for the families of the Pike River 29, says ACC Minister Nick Smith.

I won't be signing up to this. Get behind something that will do some good.

A new national service looks ready to start next year to make sure every 16 or 17-year-old ends up in work or training after leaving school.

Never mind the cheaper carrots, try a few workouts instead.

Public service job numbers have continued to fall.

Work and Income officials have selected just over a tenth of the country's 43,000 sole-parent beneficiaries with no children under 6 to be the guinea pigs for a work-testing scheme starting today.

A complaint by Paula Bennett over a news item which claimed she offered money to a solo mum is to go ahead.