Winter Energy Payment
The Winter Energy Payment is back and now available for 22 weeks from 1 May to 1 October to seniors and families needing help to pay for heating ast the months draw colder. It’s a small intervention that will reach an estimated million low income householders...The Welfare Expert Advisory Group Report has now completed its Report – Wakamana Tāngata – Restoring Dignity to Social Security in New Zealand
In May 2018 the Government established the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (WEAG) to advise them on the future of New Zealand’s social security system. The WEAG has now completed its Report – Wakamana Tāngata – Restoring Dignity to Social Security in New Zealand. The...Submission on homelessness in Hawke’s Bay
We are particularly concerned about reports of families / whānau being moved around motels in the area to accommodate tourists, leaving children / tamariki and young people / rangitahi detached from communities, schools and health care. As social workers know well,... Government Challenged to Get Low-Income Kiwis into Homes
KiwiBuy is a campaign to convince the Government to adopt and fund the range of shared equity and rent to buy programmes run by community housing providers. KiwiBuy campaign director Campbell Roberts said “Three families each week move into new homes, built for them...Minister congratulates Ākarana Sarah whānau on housing
Minister for Māori Development and Associate Minister of Housing Hon Nanaia Mahuta congratulated whānau from Bridge Pa, near Hastings for their vision of building homes on their ancestral land. Te Puni Kōkiri invested $376,661 towards infrastructure costs to assist...New homes for Auckland families in need
“These 18 two-bedroom and five four-bedroom warm, dry homes on Chippendale Crescent have been designed to meet the needs of families in the area,” Phil Twyford. “They are close to a number of schools, the Beach Haven ferry to Auckland CBD, and are 4km from the...