Upcoming financial support needs to be nationwide, ongoing and backdated to start of lockdown
New financial support for low-income families could enhance public health success, slow down inequality and offer relief from desperate hardship…
Child Poverty Action Group
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Child Poverty Action Group welcomes moves to cover birth injuries under ACC
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) welcomes the announcement by ACC Minister Carmel Sepuloni that some birth injuries to the…
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Latest jump in weekly benefit numbers highest since first lockdown – Child Poverty Action Group
The current lockdown has triggered the largest weekly increase in benefit recipient numbers since the first lockdown last year, and…
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Government response to lockdown poverty “inadequate” and “sluggish” – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group is deeply concerned the Minister of Finance this week refused to signal what, if any, desperately-needed…
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Lack of lockdown support cancels “basic human rights” says microloan service
High numbers of people are asking a microloan service to reduce their debt repayments because they can’t afford food. “For…
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Our poorest families need protection now – Child Poverty Action Group
Advocates and researchers warn the effects of this lockdown could be worse than the first for many of the country’s…
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Anti-Poverty Groups Query Budget Benefit Delay, Call For Full Increases On 1 July
A group of anti-poverty campaigners has called on the Government to implement its Budget benefit plans on 1 July, rather…
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Income Support Rises Welcome If Not Yet Enough – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes the income support increases announced today by the Government, saying the rises will be a…
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Government Report Shows Children Made To Suffer Unnecessarily – Child Poverty Action Group
Grim reading: that’s the Child Poverty Action Group’s assessment of the Child Poverty Related Indicators Report released today by the…
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Anti-poverty Groups To Labour: Election Results Mean No More Excuses – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group, ActionStation and Auckland Action Against Poverty are calling on the new government to follow through quickly…