invalids benefit Archive

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  Employment inspiration in Mental Health Awareness Week - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  This morning I attended a very positive event in Thames hosted by the Like Minds Like Mine team from Te Korowai Hauora O Hauraki. It was a breakfast for employers to network with agencies like Workwise and Workbridge on the theme of the benefits of employing people with impairments. One of the town’s largest employers, [...] read more
  October 6, 2010 12:27 pm - 2 Comments
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  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
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  An ACC model for welfare? No thanks - by frog

  
  
  
  Over the weekend, Social Development Minister raised the prospect of an ACC model for sickness and invalid’s benefits. My bet is that Bennett is talking about moving sickness and invalid’s benefits to the insurance model that ACC is increasingly becoming based on, rather than to a model based on the Woodhouse principle of complete rehabilitation that it was founded on. read more
  May 31, 2010 10:35 am - 5 Comments
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  Drunk in charge of a sickness benefit - by frog

  
  
  
  No amount of work-testing is going to get people who cannot work because of alcohol or drug dependency back into the workforce. All that will do is make them feel harassed and more likely to sink deeper into the faux refuge of their dependency. read more
  March 19, 2010 8:17 am - 20 Comments
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  Lindsay Mitchell compares apples with oranges and goes bananas - by frog

  
  
  
  Beneficiary bashing blogger Lindsay Mitchell published a post last week in which she attempted to argue that many people on sickness and invalid’s benefits should be looking for work. She compared the current unemployment and sickness/invalid’s benefit figures with those in 1999, the last time unemployment was at its current level of 7.3%, and came [...] read more
  February 8, 2010 12:46 pm - 49 Comments
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  Attack on invalids is a sick policy - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  Last month one-time Act party candidate and full time crusader against the DPB Lindsay Mitchell released a statement criticising National for not implementing their draconian pre-election welfare policy.  According to Ms Mitchell, who writes from the leafy Wellington sea side suburb Eastbourne, what is needed is a bit more carrot and probably a rather large [...] read more
  November 4, 2009 9:00 am - 51 Comments
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  Choosing to be sick or invalid - by frog

  
  
  
  Despite people’s complaints when I write about social welfare benefits rather than environmental and conservation issues, it does seem to be the successful meme this week – with you readers making hundreds of comments on the topic. So, here’s one more. Toad and Jafapete have a good summary of the claim by the National Party [...] read more
  August 13, 2008 2:51 pm - 48 Comments
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  A week of g.blog - by frog

  
  
  
  Toad has found out that the National Party’s beneficiary policy is worse than I suggested this morning: They are not just going to work-test people on DPB, but also those on Invalid’s Benefit (qualification: “permanently and severely restricted in his or her capacity for work because of sickness, or because of injury or disability from [...] read more
  August 11, 2008 1:54 pm - 2 Comments