Jacinda Ardern said last night that Bill English discovered poverty for the first time last week....and it goes unchallenged in NZ media, on-line etc. But what about this -
A $790 million package to lift children out of poverty will see benefits rise beyond inflation for the first time in 30 years
.....Social Development Minister Anne Tolley said she was confident the package would not contribute to further welfare dependency, but would have a "positive impact" on New Zealand's poorest families.
"While two-thirds of children in more severe material hardship live in beneficiary families, the remaining third have working parents on low incomes, and the Government thinks those families could also do with extra support," she said.
The Government was expecting the package to have a "meaningful impact" on four different groups of families in New Zealand.
They were beneficiary families, low and very low-income working families as well as well as families earning more than $36,350 a year.
