The number of those coming off the DPB since part-time work requirements were introduced had increased by 22 per cent over the past year - to more than 3,500 people.
Part-time worktesting when the youngest child is six was introduced in September 2010.
Here are the DPB totals for each quarter over the past year:
June 2010 111,689
Sept 2010 112,765
Dec 2010 112,865
March 2011 113,077
Ops normal.
More people going on the DPB than leaving.
(While that conference was taking place so was another meeting of the Alternative Welfare Justice group and supporters. The organiser was the Catholic Social Justice Agency, Caritas. Expect rumblings from that today. The NZ Herald Social Issues reporter did not report on the conference Bennett attended so he may have been at the other.)
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How do numbers break down on gender distinctions?
Cadwallader
I've tended to ignore Caritas, because they are hardly Catholic, even thought they have the Catholic name. Just a quick search of their website showed no hits for the word "marriage", which I would have thought a Catholic group would be heavily into promoting, as a means of preventing poverty, and thus reducing the need for people to go on welfare.
The international head of Caritas was recently fired because she wasn't Catholic enough. Things are shifting, but very slowly.
Cadwallader 12.2 percent male.
By definition, there can't be any real Catholics on the DPB..
But yes, another minister lying about the massive amount of benefit abuse and just pure waste in this country.
Pity you didn't ask her how she planned to pay for it all - because of course there is no plan: other than to go to the bankers.
Any realistic discussion of welfare "reform" must include the logical choice of immediate termination.
And then a few moments reflection will show that it is the only effective way to deal with the problem.
Do you really believe, that if the dole, DPB, super, accommodation supplement, school funding, hospital funding & all the rest were stopped, that 1 Million Kiwis would starve to death in the next week?
That was lot of use then. Recession fed divorces and separations stats causing this? What is the reason?
Try this approach. Get 350,000 new jobs in the economy, evenly spread around NZ. Then all can jump off benefits and the retired can do a bit of paid work as well.
It,s the only solution really.
Increase in dbp and other benefit numbers reflects either scams, more divorces,job loss, delibrate childbirths regardless. Earthquakes and Pike River only account for a small number.
Is the wife going on the DBP while hubby goes to Auzzie to work so money coming in from both sides of the ditch. Scams can be as creative as people are.
Try this approach. Get 350,000 new jobs in the economy,
I can provide those jobs in a week - or less, say across a weekend.
Just make these two simple law changes:
1) remove all minimum wage legislation (including the appropriate sections of the crimes act)
2) stop all benefit payments.
problem solved
Who said "Just make these two simple law changes:
1) remove all minimum wage legislation (including the appropriate sections of the crimes act)
2) stop all benefit payments."
Anonymous hasn,t learnt from the Russian Or French revolutions.Auckland would be burnt down overnight in civil unrest, creating an instant peasant class like that- What,s happening in the middle east right now. Be a brave politician who even spoke publicly of that. The stone age is past.
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