Thursday, April 27, 2006

Sickness and Invalid benefits keep climbing

Ministry of Social Development has just released benefit stats for year ending March 2006. DPB is down 2,300 but Invalid and Sickness benefits are up 4,400. Some single parents will have transferred onto these benefits.

2 comments:

Michael said...

Obviously welfare is bad for your health. Maybe warning stickers should be placed on every WINZ workers forehead.

Lindsay Mitchell said...

Brian, He's probably got RSI from lugging around engine parts.