Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 7, 2017 17:14:57 GMT 12
SANCTION HURTING SOLO MUMS BY REDUCING BENEFIT FOR NOT NAMING FATHER
Parents who don't legally identify the other parent have $22 deducted every week for each child. A further $6 per family is added if it continues for over 13 weeks.
Figures released exclusively to the Herald show that over 14,000 parents are being hit with almost 18,000 sanctions in New Zealand. This is over $400,000 a week in Social Security Act 1964 Section 70A benefit sanctions.
In Auckland alone this number totals over 5000 parents and almost 7000 sanctions.
Auckland Action Against Poverty spokeswoman Vanessa Cole called the policy sexist and racist. Over 50 per cent of the penalised parents were Maori.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11886812
Parents who don't legally identify the other parent have $22 deducted every week for each child. A further $6 per family is added if it continues for over 13 weeks.
Figures released exclusively to the Herald show that over 14,000 parents are being hit with almost 18,000 sanctions in New Zealand. This is over $400,000 a week in Social Security Act 1964 Section 70A benefit sanctions.
In Auckland alone this number totals over 5000 parents and almost 7000 sanctions.
Auckland Action Against Poverty spokeswoman Vanessa Cole called the policy sexist and racist. Over 50 per cent of the penalised parents were Maori.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11886812