MSD turning down 220 food parcels per day, tiniest minimum wage increase ever and Kiwi man weeps at shopping prices in Australia

Three stories manage to capture the cost of living pain so many Kiwis are living with.

The first is news MSD are turning down 220 food grants each day…

MSD rejecting 220 pleas for food grants each day

MSD is rejecting almost one in every 16 requests for food grants, more than double the rejection rate last year after policies were toughened up under the new Government in an effort to save $12.7 million a year, RNZ’s Amy Williamsreported last night. MSD figures show rejections rose to 60,579 in the nine months to the end of September, up from 36,945 in the same period a year ago under the Labour Government. That means MSD is now rejecting around 220 applications each day. Coincidentally, perhaps, about 220 residents are migrating permanently each day, more than half to Australia.

…this at the exact same time as the Government slash aid to food banks…

Some Auckland foodbanks may close due to funding cuts

…while only raising the minimum wage by a pathetic 1.5%…

Minimum wage to increase by 1.5% to $23.50 an hour from April

…while a Kiwi man goes viral for weeping at how low the price of food is in Australia…

Kiwi dad living in Australia brought to tears by cheap cost of supermarket shop

• A Kiwi dad of three has taken to TikTok to share his emotional moment of the supermarket receipt that brought him to tears.
• Poreva Kirikava and his family moved from New Zealand to Sydney in December and it came as a total shock to him when his grocery bill came to $380 AUD.
• Kirikana believed if he brought these items back home it would have cost around $1000 NZD.

…THIS is what we is now!

THIS is the austerity this pack of rich prick right wing arseholes have instigated.

These rich right wing pricks manipulated your post Covid Bitterness, convinced you Jacinda was to blame and allowed your feral unhinged fury to elect them and benefit their rich prick donors.

You sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind deserves everything National, ACT and NZF are going to do to you.

You have allowed National, ACT and NZF to molest the common good for their donor interests and call that democracy.

You have been emotionally manipulated by the Right and are still too damaged to admit it.

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