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    		• Welfare Benefits
    30-August-2010

    Here are some of the principles that are guiding the Government's approach to long-term reform of the welfare system.

  • Those New Zealanders who can work should be in work.
  • A welfare system should support people when they most need it, but it should also encourage people to get back to work as soon as they are able.
  • It is not fair to ordinary hard-working New Zealanders if people receiving a benefit aren't making every effort to get back into work.
  • People receiving a benefit are only able to do so because others are going to work everyday earning a wage and paying tax.
  • Paid employment will always offer better choices than welfare dependency.

    • Look at the sort of statistics that the Government is dealing with. Of the 354,000 beneficiaries in New Zealand:

  • 43,000 DPB beneficiaries have a youngest child aged over six.
  • 12,000 Unemployment beneficiaries have been on the unemployment benefit for more than a year.
  • 29,580 sickness beneficiaries have been on the sickness benefit for more than a year.
  • 85,000 people receive the Invalids' Benefit.
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