Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 31, 2019 17:12:15 GMT 12
BENEFIT SANCTION: MĀORI PENALISED, CHILDREN GOING HUNGRY, ADVOCATES SAY
The Ministry of Social Development needs to hurry up and scrap a benefit sanction that is penalising Māori and leaving children hungry, beneficiary advocates say.
The use of the sanction, which cuts off or reduces benefits if a beneficiary doesn't get a warrant to arrest cleared, has risen by almost 60 percent over the past four years, from 1523 people to 2616 people in 2018.
That is despite the government's own Welfare Expert Advisory Group recommending the sanction be removed.
Of those sanctioned in 2018, 70 percent were Māori, and 30 percent were wāhine Māori......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/402209/benefit-sanction-maori-penalised-children-going-hungry-advocates-say
The Ministry of Social Development needs to hurry up and scrap a benefit sanction that is penalising Māori and leaving children hungry, beneficiary advocates say.
The use of the sanction, which cuts off or reduces benefits if a beneficiary doesn't get a warrant to arrest cleared, has risen by almost 60 percent over the past four years, from 1523 people to 2616 people in 2018.
That is despite the government's own Welfare Expert Advisory Group recommending the sanction be removed.
Of those sanctioned in 2018, 70 percent were Māori, and 30 percent were wāhine Māori......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/402209/benefit-sanction-maori-penalised-children-going-hungry-advocates-say