Automated Benefit Decisions: Greens Warn of Harm
A machine will now be allowed to make decisions about benefit support. The Greens say New Zealand is walking straight towards its own robodebt disaster.
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Government Allows AI Benefit Decisions Against Beneficiaries
Jobseeker recipients now reapply every six months. MSD can now use automated systems for welfare decisions. Somehow the poorest are always first in line for State experiments.
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You have more chance of winning lotto than getting a state house or any help from this Government
Nicola Willis says State housing tenants have won Lotto. Funny, because most of them are still waiting for a safe roof and a Government that cares.
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Temporary Additional Support Cuts Hit Vulnerable Kiwis
When families can’t afford food, power or rent, National’s answer is to cut the last bit of support keeping them afloat.
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Greens Slam National Public Housing Reforms
The Greens say National is balancing its Budget on the backs of public housing tenants, beneficiaries and disabled New Zealanders.
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Kicking the disabled, denigrating migrants and bashing beneficiaries to balance the budget isn’t a solution, it’s social vandalism
Critics warn the Government’s public sector cuts and welfare changes are punishing vulnerable New Zealanders to fund austerity politics.
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MSD Accused of Helping Debt Collectors Target Beneficiaries
The State is taking money from beneficiaries and handing it to debt collectors while taxpayers fund emergency support to keep those same people afloat.
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This Government kick the disabled in the balls and you are allowing them to because you hate Jacinda
After disability carers won in the Supreme Court, the Government’s response is to rewrite the law and strip protections away again.
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What would Jesus do? Criminalising homelessness after causing the homelessness is an obscenity
After cutting housing and social support, the Government now wants police powers to move on and punish the homeless its own policies helped create.
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We are adrift without a vision except one of fiscal rectitude
When every problem gets answered with “cut spending”, it’s not policy — it’s ideology.
