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Two aphorisms came to mind when the government announced last week it had launched a tripartite investigation – comprising BusinessNZ, the Council of Trade Unions and the government – to investigate the creation of a European-style unemployment insurance scheme to pay redundant workers around 80% of their income while they retrain and find another good job.
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is
The first question I’m struck by is why two bodies supposed to be at loggerheads would want a build a scheme that seemed so generous. Who is going to pay for this – employers? Workers? The government?
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It s not nearly enough to actually support people into what we believe is their best lives. One of our most important resources in this country is our people and I think people who are receiving benefits in this country continue to feel like, Well is that what the government thinks people are worth .
Pao Stanley said the Government has presented it as a radical investment, but it was actually buildups . They re saying this is reversing the Mother of all Budgets and this is a radical investment but I think radical would have been livable incomes, radial would have been individualised benefits, radical would have been removing obligations and sanctions from the welfare system. I think this was an opportunity for them to do more and they didn t.
Thursday, 20 May 2021, 4:13 pm
Auckland Action Against Poverty is frustrated about the
so-called reversing of the Mother of All Budgets as the
Labour government continues to introduce incremental changes
to the welfare system.
“The government had an
opportunity to truly secure our recovery, by lifting
benefits to liveable levels and fulfilling their promise to
transform the welfare system. The $32-$55 increase to core
benefits isn’t going to stop our whānau from needing to
access hardship grants, and will continue to keep people and
families in poverty,” says Auckland Action Against Poverty
coordinator Brooke Pao Stanley.
“The recommendations
of benefit increases in the WEAG report are out-of-date, and