March 2010 benefit fact sheets are out.
Unemployment benefit 60,211
DPB 109,643
Sickness benefit 55,796
Invalid's benefit 84,877
Over the year to March unemployment benefit is up 62 percent ; DPB up 7 percent; sickness benefit up 9 percent; invalid benefit up 1 percent.
Over the quarter to March while the DPB also rose (+354) the unemployment (-6117), sickness (-3362) and invalid (-161) benefits fell.
Earlier in the month the Minister said;
1,110 sole parents also cancelled their DPB and went into paid work.
But more joined up to the DPB than left.
The quarterly fall in sickness beneficiaries is good but I am not sure what it means. Perhaps the December quarter had featured a temporary surge in short term recipients explaining why 2009 saw the biggest calendar year SB increase ever recorded.
The quarterly fall in the unemployment benefit is also obviously good but I still believe much of it represents a transfer to student allowances. There are still no 2010 statistics available for those.
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Those DPB numbers sure are high. How many kids does that equate to under such welfare?
180-190,000 children. Hence NZ's much talked about child poverty problem. Around 90,000 are Maori.
Even Dave "Tony Lite" Cameron has more guts than this useless National/ACT government.
Here's an idea John - Lets cut the dole for those who refuse to work! - yep, really simple, if there are jobs - and there are lots of jobs out there -we terminate the dole, immediately and permanently
Noo, never work, never in NZ, or in any "Westminster" country...
Really.
Really???
Because it is tory policy in the UK
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2010/04/cameronbenefits.jpg
Even Roger doesn't have the guts to say this.
Even Brash's 2025 joke report didn't say this.
but it is a mainstream policy in the UK.
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