Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: beneficiaries

  • Anne Tolley desperate to screw down beneficiaries even further

    So for 18 years, people who have been on stand-down periods from benefits – i.e. forced to stretch whatever savings or credit or charity they can access just in case…

  • QOTD: The real theme of the Budget

    Wonderfully summed up by my comrade mickysavage over at The Standard: As the dust settles a few themes are appearing. National agrees that child poverty is an urgent issue but…

  • Another spotlight on National’s gross mistreatment of beneficiaries

    It’s the old National Party lie, isn’t it? As reported in The Press: New Zealand’s social welfare system “dehumanises” people in need, with beneficiaries described as “scared stiff” of Work…

  • Back to the future: Brian Easton on benefit abatement rates

    Hat-tip to Sarah Wilson on Twitter for linking to this 1995 piece by Brian Easton on the “unintended” consequences of abating people’s benefits when they get part-time work – to…

  • On poverty, parenting, and Paula

    Of course it would be Paula Bennett, the government’s most infamous ladder-retracting Minister, getting headlines about irresponsible parenting being the real cause of children going to school with no lunches. “[Voting…