Domestic Purposes Benefit Archive

  • Catherine Delahunty

    Welfare changes: private profit and political posturing - by Catherine Delahunty



    Did I miss something? Did the Prime Minister say he was going to work with the business and community sectors to create jobs at a living wage for the 27 percent of young people with no jobs? No. But he did promise to privitise the management of youth benefits for profit via a food stamps system. read more
    August 15, 2011 2:05 pm - 24 Comments
  • Metiria Turei

    The Welfare Working Group and benefit cuts by stealth - by Metiria Turei



    The Welfare Working Group wants to force beneficiaries to work, but proposes to pay them less if they do so. At page 107 of the Welfare Working Group’s report (PDF) the Group proposes changes to benefit abatement – i.e. the way benefits are reduced in response to income earned by the beneficiary. Currently there are [...] read more
    March 12, 2011 7:45 am - 30 Comments
  • Metiria Turei

    The Welfare Working Group and the injection - by Metiria Turei



    As reported on Morning Report yesterday, the Welfare Working Group report makes a startling – indeed deeply frightening – recommendation to link contraception to sole parent benefit receipt. The report says on page 15: We have heard a concern among some people that setting a work expectation for parents when their youngest child reaches three [...] read more
    March 8, 2011 9:23 am - 29 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    Bennett’s unhelpful benefit cliches - by Catherine Delahunty



    The Minister of Social Development Paula Bennett made a speech recently at the National Party Regional Conference in Oamaru, in which she talked about how terrible it is for children to see their parents on a long-term benefit. I must experience a more complex universe than the Minister. The worst experience for a child is [...] read more
    May 31, 2010 3:42 pm - 19 Comments
  • frog

    Submit on the Social Assistance (Future Focus) Bill - by frog



    The Social Assistance (Future Focus) Bill has been referred to Parliament’s Social Services Select Committee for submissions. Metiria Turei and Catherine Delahunty have produced a submission guide to assist people wanting to make submissions opposing this Bill. The deadline for submissions is Friday 14 May 2010. read more
    April 13, 2010 2:27 pm - 6 Comments
  • frog

    Why not send the children out work instead? - by frog



    I can’t understand why National normally sounds so keen on having parents (mothers) stay at home with their kids, but is constantly coming up with ways to make it hard for them to do that if they choose to. Sue Bradford has been reminding people this morning of the risks that might come from  National’s [...] read more
    August 11, 2008 11:38 am - 106 Comments
  • frog

    More on the Domestic Purposes Benefit - by frog



    The Domestic Purpose Benefit was reformed in 2002. Before it was reformed the number of parents on the DPB had been slowly falling. They continued to fall after the 2002 reforms, from 100,652 in 2002, to 93,348 in 2006 (down 7.3%). The Ministry of Social Development’s Statistical Report notes: Since 2002, almost all working aged [...] read more
    February 25, 2008 3:17 pm - 26 Comments