Fewer than half of families eligible for FamilyBoost get payments
Fewer than half of the 100,000 families promised a childcare subsidy boost by the Government have claimed and received payments, figures show.
During May’s Budget, the Finance Minister said the FamilyBoost payments would “make a difference to more than 100,000 Kiwi families – that’s 140,000 Kiwi kids”. The policy offered families, earning up to $180,000, a maximum of $75 a week for childcare fees.
While 58,770 have registered for the payments, only 41,550 claims have been approved, with 1495 households receiving the full $75 rebate.
Every time National were challenged about what they would do to counter the cost of living and inequality they pointed to tax cuts and FamilyBoost.
Unfortunately the tax cuts were borrowed and allowed a massive hollow austerity budget to be passed and of the 100 000 families who were supposed to benefit from FamilyBoost is less than half that because the programme is so cumbersome no one actually benefits.
What was the point of a promised $75 a week when it’s too difficult to get and what was the point of a $14 a week tax cut when all the privatisation agenda has seen costs soar?
National have you a cent with one hand and took a dollar with another and you haven’t been able to come to grips with that because your post Covid bitterness still hates Labour.
At some point this becomes less like politics and more like masochism.
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NZ won’t survive another two years of these smug CoC idiots, there has to be an early election.
We survived 6 years of Labour and before that 9 years of National and before that 9 years of Labour . In reality life goes on whoever is in power and government moves have small effect as most shrug their shoulders and do the best they can.
Yes I am sure those receiving the trickle up flow will do well, as usual the those on the trickle down flow are seeing barely a few drips as well as the ‘drips’ in the CoC. The nine years prior to the Key era were the best since the Kirk years. NZ will not survive another two years at the rate we are going downhill. The only escape from permanent economic and social damage is to have an early election and put some experience back in charge.
We survived 6 years of Labour and before that 9 years of National and before that 9 years of Labour . In reality life goes on whoever is in power and government moves have small effect as most shrug their shoulders and do the best they can.
Your comments lack depth, and perspective… As such, they amount to trite comment with no intellectual basis… That whoever is still here once all the kiwis that can leave do leave, wil surely survive.. What is relevant is how well they will survive…
having gotten back here just in time for the lockdown, I can say without fear of contradiction, that the fabric of NZ society was ultimately, and permanantly damaged by the coup de grâce delivered by the Key government…
This country is only one small step away from life support, as kiwis, in their own inimitable way, continue to support the growth of what amounts to a cancer that is eating this country away… Globalism.. and if you think I’m wrong, then tell me what bringing over half a million people in from the third world and dumping them in Auckland, without spending a red cent on infrastructure in preparation was supposed to be good for NZ…
Your generalisations, and oversimplifications are pointless, and as such mean nothing..
Totally agree with you Stefan and Neil, to get a drivers license you have to pass a test, if there were a political competency test required for voting, idiots like Trevor would fail. This is the major problem in NZ now, political ignorance which also goes hand in hand with ignorance on the Treaty.
Caught your pod today, cool, and congrats, for you ken. Best polo moment of the year was today in the hoos, Rawiri, question to slack jaw, reading a Santa letter from a kid, santa can you send me money or like so my mum and me, can get a hamburger to share, So slack jaw, stands and the usual hand wave i know its hard out their blah blah blah. So Rawiri, supplementary, can the Prime Minister, tell the hoos, how many hamburgers could the capital gain tax of your recent three home sells buy, or similar. So Gerry his usual that question is out of order. Then the backup Winnie, what sort of Parliament is allowing .,Yet the real picture is slack jay, head bowed, and his left hand stroking his jaw in hopeful hidden sham, helo the camera never lies.
We are fast getting past the point of no return. The coalition government is like a runaway train in the wrong direction. What happens when we have another disaster because we certainly will
This forum is like a pack of women sitting around a kitchen table talking about how useless men are.
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