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New Zealand: Government to Announce Welfare Changes |
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Monday, February 27, 2012 |
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New Zealand |
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Mar 05, 2012 |
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Welfare changes to be announced on Monday are aimed at cutting beneficiary numbers and helping young people stay off the dole, Prime Minister John Key says.
The Government is going to confirm the first phase of changes it announced before last November's election which include tighter work test rules, childcare help for sole parents and new ways to ensure young people go into training when they leave school and can't get a job.
"The emphasis has to be that if people can work they should work," Mr Key told TVNZ on Monday.
"It's not a big stick approach, it's a balanced approach."
Mr Key says about 13 percent of the working age population, 350,000 people supporting 225,000 children, are on some sort of benefit.
"It's costing $20 million a day, $8 billion a year, and I think most New Zealanders would say that's too much," he said.
"We've also got a group of young people, thousands of them, who leave school and don't get work or go into training - they're on a collision course with the welfare system when they're 18 and we have to get them off that path."
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