Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni has been crowing about people coming off benefits recently. I said to nobody in particular, "People always come off benefits at this time of year."
But don't take my word for it. Here's the Jan - Feb change 2021:
In total there was a drop from 389,601 to 377,907 - a 3% reduction.
And this is the same period in 2020:
The overall drop was 2.7%
A good deal of the change is driven by students moving from JS Student Hardship (categorised in 'other main benefits') back to student allowances. This is an older graph from my files but it serves to clearly show the annual December spike.
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