This has been missed, Labour are signalling a large lift in Welfare…
Carmel Sepuloni promises massive boost to Jobseeker benefit – but won’t say when
The Minister for Social Welfare has a goal of raising the unemployment benefit by $57 a week by 2023.
Carmel Sepuloni told Newshub Nation on Saturday morning she was “confident” the Government would reach the $315 target set by the Welfare Expert Advisory Group for a single person on the Jobseeker benefit.
…Labour have been under enormous pressure to lift benefits, every report makes it clear that the pittance paid in welfare is impossible to live on.
NZ politics however is built upon bashing beneficiaries, attacking Māori and refusing point blank to ever pay back the true cost of confiscated land.
Labour fear National making welfare queens as much a dog whistle as they are currently grossly twisting Māori Health autonomy into ‘segregation’.
Labour shouldn’t underestimate the need to meaningfully lift benefits or the universal goodwill Labour’s Covid leadership has generated.
Now is the time to have the courage of your convictions!
The mistake the Government must avoid is any clawback tactics used by MSD and Winz to reduce this real gain. If Labour will be punished for kindness, then why allow MSD to amputate the good that kindness can create?
Rising rents will see a spike in homelessness this bitter winter. Lift welfare now.
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What I see coming: (St.) Jacinda sustaining her role as a TALKER – NOT A DOER!!
If this increase is done in isolation then it will help nobody .Rent will increase but government top up will be cut The loan sharks will be circling. Grants for food parcels will be cut. Pressure will go on wages to be increased to keep parity .
By 2023 the problems will be worst and cost more to fix . Is it a coincidence that that is election year?
My local Hospice Op Shop which previously refused to open all day Saturday, is now opening on Sundays.
When I volunteered there, a woman complained that Samoans could not afford their prices. It’s all happening.
To be fair some of the hospice shops are charging ‘market rates’. So no wonder the Samoans can’t afford their prices. (sic).
Save NZ – Correct. Mine ID’d it’s customer base as trendy young professionals, and mums in their 30’s looking for bargains, which wasn’t accurate. Volunteers were forbidden to lower prices but did. As well as a paid salary, I think the local area manager got a percentage of the takings, hence her motivation to keep prices high.
Yes, their aim is to raise funds, not to provide a social service, and historically the Sallies’ Shops barely broke even, but locally they employ mainly paid staff, whereas the Hospice shop has unpaid persons.
Too much gets binned, which could or should be recycled, or utilised, in many ways – there could be a better balance – but the logistics are challenging, and there are circs where the V de Paul provides essential stuff for free, and social housing providers may provide quality new furniture and furnishings free.
With home buyers experiencing more FOOP than FOMO, expect housing costs to stabilize. Granted more housing supply is needed. and it won’t be fixed by 2023. A rent moratorium might be the thing to give the government time to get it’s ducks in a row, like the time it built 30,000 houses in the 80s because jobs and housing.
Don’t bust your arse in the rush. F–k what National thinks! Yes 2023 is and election year.
Seems pointless to raise benefits without engineering a housing crash first. Without the former the latter only increases rents.
People don’t seem to willingly give up wealth or power.. looks like a ‘Mexican Standoff’ to me. Perhaps the paper-rich; speculators, the highly leveraged and recent home buyers will be forced to take a financial hit of varying severity.
Perhaps the RBNZ and Labour will continue weakening confidence in the NZD – keeping assets propped up. Either way rents will increase, especially if benefits do. Wait to homeowners/speculators click to the rate hikes coming down the pike.
“Rising rents…”
Benefits aside, and its blatantly obvious renters from private rentals will be fleeced of this quick time, when is our government and voters going to wake up to the fact that the taxpayer is footing a massive bill every week, temporary housing, rent subsidies, negative gearing for investors, so they can leave our broken ruinous housing meltdown lifestyle just the way it is?
We can’t plug enough leaks in this fracturing dam any longer.
It’s terrible, socialists are stealing from working Kiwis and it’s a weekly, ongoing steal. People maybe say we have a moral obligation to fund such things. However it’s about as moral as 2 people in a room of 3 voting to rob the 3rd guy.
A functioning housing market is what is needed. Reduce ghost homes, knock interest-only-loans on the head, disallowing excessive leverage via equity, stop surprising interest rates through RBNZ bond purchases and raise rates to reflect the cost of maintaining/fixing our cities.
That would be moral and reduce rents AND house prices. Let the chips fall where they may. Stop robing the 3rd guy in the room! Just a functional housing market would be nice. 🙂
But aren’t we still hearing about the amount of jobs that the lazy drugged out Kiwis can’t be bothered filling so we need another immigration wave to help the poor fish and chip shops, multimillion dollar fisheries and construction, horticulture businesses, transport and aged care business that can’t get staff (not even the million new ‘kiwi’s” that they bought in to apparently “address the labour shortages” above in the last 15 years) but funny enough, don’t appear to be working in those industries now, so seem to be joining the growing groups on welfare, while becoming the “first home buyers” that the government are rushing to get into houses (often at the detriment of those who used to rent the houses).
Fishing companies don’t want to hire local, mariners say
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/429335/fishing-companies-don-t-want-to-hire-local-mariners-say
Oil rig workers claim unfair treatment in a system ‘rotten to the core’
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/121961383/oil-rig-workers-claim-unfair-treatment-in-a-system-rotten-to-the-core
Not even the super rich NZ new residents can afford to hire Kiwis apparently and stop work until we allow the latest trend of new peasants to come to NZ and toil the fields. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018791897/james-cameron-explains-dairy-cows-on-wairarapa-farm
“Our plan to expand the veggie operation and get the animals off basically sort of got derailed by the pandemic, because we needed a lot more labour for the veggie operation than we do to run the stock, and our access to labour from the Solomon Islands or Philippines and things like that basically just went away.”
The reality is that NZ is deliberately creating a climate of low wages, contract, gig, cash labour and discrimination for NZ labour in NZ to please lobbying business, while the Ponzi wheels seem to be coming off as more people need to be on benefits and can’t afford to live here, whether working or not. The incoming people are competing for jobs and houses and roads and health care, but are joining the beneficiaries already in NZ while business brays for more to come.
When you don’t even have a workforce capable of building a house or road after spending 10 years recruiting overseas for them, but instead have more poor cash construction workers in NZ refusing to leave and higher contract prices for building in NZ, something is wrong with the labour you are bringing in and the management running it and questions need to be asked of the woke and lefties turning a blind eye and enabling it!
Typical, the date of when is a voter bribe.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they increase the difficulty of applying for a benefit and demeaning tactics to intimidate someone off one.
Or post election, delay, excuse, and hope this promise will be forgotten.
Labour don’t need to increase benefits because they already own the vote of the bennies.
If they’re to stay in power they need to demonstrate to the middle class that they’re capable of governing outside of covid. So far the jury is out…
Unless Labour live up to their name, I’m never voting for them again. I’d rather join the missing million
Labour will shovel money to landlords for rental topup payments without any enquiry but heaven forbid they provide real benefits to people in need. NZ is becoming a tragedy. Why is this elitist party calling itself Labour anyhow? Can it be forced to change its name to something more suitable like Phony trecherous smily party or Tony Blair property investor supporters party or Xi left cheek money counts more than human rights party….. I could go on.
Forget Labour and the greens vote TOP the only party with any real ideas
https://www.top.org.nz/policy
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