WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: New Welfare reforms will cruelly hurt Māori most
The Government’s latest draconian welfare reforms will cruelly punish Māori the most.
Māori are 15% of the population yet are 36% of all main benefit recipients.
In the Jobseeker benefit Māori represent 39% of recipients, compared to 36% for New Zealand Europeans and for the Sole Parent benefit, Māori account for 48% of recipients, significantly higher than the 29% for New Zealand Europeans.
This all means that the negative punishments built into the Amendments To Social Security Act passed through Parliament will hammer Māori hardest.
The Bill is an abusive piece of legislation specifically designed to make getting welfare far harder while making it easier to punish those needing help.
The punishments are extreme and purposely bureaucratic in the hope that those needing help are either denied or punished.
The ‘Money Management’ scheme takes 50% of welfare payments and forces them onto a card that will make it impossible for them to pay rent and will lead to a dramatic spike in homelessness.
What seems even crueller is that any one punished with a ‘Money Management’ sanction or ‘Community Work Experience’ sanction won’t be eligible for emergency housing or special needs grants.
This won’t help anyone on welfare, it will punish them and it will punish Māori disproportionately.
Everything this Government does seems to harm Māori most and when you consider the sheer scale of anti-Māori and ant-Treaty legislation that this Government is attempting to pass, you really must ask if this is the most anti-Māori Government for at least a century.
To quote from a Stuff article on this nonsense end of last year.
> Under questioning, deputy chief executive Simon MacPherson said case mangers could exercise discretion and choose not to enact sanctions if it could lead to, for instance, homelessness or undue consequences.
Totally meaningless, unless, for example, a genuinely left-wing party promised to investigate any MSD case managers who actually implemented such sanctions and make them unemployed.
> The advice, seen by Stuff, warned the branded payment cards… could be “easily circumvented”. Those using them could buy goods to sell, the advice said.
To ACT’s ghetto merchant voters, this is a positive aspect.
‘ Under questioning, deputy chief executive Simon MacPherson said case managers could exercise discretion and choose not to enact sanctions if it could lead to, for instance, homelessness or undue consequences.’
Well true as that is old boy it does not lead to promotions or advancement.
I mean it would be like a person working for Inland Revenue deciding that although a slumlord with nine houses did not have to pay a lot of tax he bloody well SHOULD and making the bastard pay an extra $7000.00 or so.
IRD superiors would take a dim view of this breach of protocol.
Or someone in the Immigration Department deciding that a wealthy migrant investor is nevertheless an exploiter of his own people and should not be allowed entry( as well as a hefty kick up the arse).
Immigration bosses not happy- instant permanent vacation handed out.
Of course, other countries do this differently. As our friend, Mark, will know, in China local government officials get to decide what the rules are on the spot and administer fees and fines.
For example; in Tianjin I rode in a taxi that struck a pedestrian that suddenly walked out into the street. Fortunately nobody was killed or even seriously injured but the female pedestrian claimed her heart was a aflutter and she needed large amounts of compensation.
Traffic Police told the driver to give her three hundred yuan because he had not stopped in time to prevent hitting someone who walked out without looking.
I had to pay three thousand yuan because – well I was sitting in a taxi and I had told the driver where to go so it was presumably my fault as well ( also foreign bastards have to be taught a lesson for the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion and Korean War).
Mind you – not sure my three thousand yuan travelled any further than the pockets of four Tianjin traffic police.
Cheers to all.
Give back their land and dignity and they will make you look like the second rate turd you are
If we did not separate everything by race people here would not be so casual .Because at the end of every statistic we have a section that hilites how poorly Maori have done .If we removed that last section people would be upset that 10% of kiwis were being fucked over .But we add that last bit on and the rest shrug their shoulders and say ,oh well its only the lazy Maoris that are affected .
iF YOU ARE AN ANIMAL ,BROWN .OR A WOMAN you have no value in NZ UNDER THIS GOVERNMENT .Add to that ACTS hate for children ,the elderly and infirm ,and working people that leaves a very small number who are seen as valuable
yes let the smelter die along with methanex,just two companies kept alive by my taxes .