Friday, January 27, 2012

Work-testing not working

The December 2011 benefit factsheets have been released. The DPB total climbed a further 1 percent over the year to reach 114,230. the work-testing implemented in September 2010 hasn't made an impression yet.

Here's the breakdown:

 
Characteristics of working-age Domestic Purposes Benefit recipients (aged 18–64 years), at the end of December 2006 and at the end of December 2011
Percentage of recipients who were:
Dec-2006
Dec-2011
Male
10.2
12.3
Female
89.8
87.7
Māori
40.4
42.4
Pacific people
9.5
10.1
18–19 years
3.0
2.8
20–24 years
14.8
16.8
25–39 years
51.1
45.9
40–54 years
26.6
28.6
55–64 years
4.5
6.0
Declaring earnings
20.4
16.1
Caring for a dependent child aged 6 years or under*
60.1
62.4
Caring for a dependent child aged 7–13 years*
30.0
27.3
Caring for a dependent child aged 14 years or over*
9.9
10.3
Caring for two or more dependent children*
51.1
47.9



Number of working-age Domestic Purposes Benefit recipients (aged 18–64 years)

100,309
114,230



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Number of working-age Domestic Purposes Benefit recipients (aged 18–64 years)

114,230


Particularly depressing when a one-line order in council would be enough to set this to zero

Anonymous said...

I found the percentage of people caring for a child aged 6 years or under interesting because you can get a rough idea of how many people have another child while they are on the benefit. I think the more telling figure would be not how many welfare receipients there are but how many children are being raised by parents on welfare. What is interesting about the 60% under 6s is that the total number of beneficiaries in the last 5 years hasn't increased correspondingly.


Gloria

Anonymous said...

Who care if bludging doesn't increase?
It needs to stop immediately.

Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Iceland, Ireland, and now Poland have been bankrupted by their welfare systems. Borrowing billions of dollars every day, NZ is quickly following suit.

Time to stop the rot while we still have an economy

Welfare has failed utterly.

Mark said...

Has it slowed the rate of increase?

If it has it's not a win but it is an improvement.