If some beneficiaries are too dangerous to be dealt with face-to-face, their benefits should be cancelled says Kerre Woodham.

The State Services Commission has ordered an investigation into a Labour Party complaint about National MP Paul Quinn.

While the number of people on benefits is rising, there are positive signs, says Social Development Minister Paula Bennett.

Derwin Randle has spent two years studying hospitality, tourism and culinary art. But right now he's glad to have a minimum-wage job in a factory.

This has been an especially awful week for Phil Goff.

An unemployed man used by Labour as an example of someone who would benefit from its dole policy owns properties worth hundreds of thousands.

Phil Goff says his call for the dole to be paid to redundant workers, regardless of their partners' incomes, would be a temporary measure for 'low and middle income' New Zealanders.