Social Development
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Taxpayer-funded job search platform more evidence of why ACT is needed
“News that the Government is spending more than $36 million on a job search platform for beneficiaries shows why ACT is needed to bring to government accountability for taxpayers,” says ACT’s Social Development spokesperson Karen Chhour.
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Welfare needs a values shift
“Welfare dependency has grown massively in New Zealand, there needs to be a rebalancing back towards obligations. The benefit is there to get people back on their feet, not to rely on,” says ACT’s Social Development spokesperson Karen Chhour.
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Welfare
Helping sick and drug-addicted beneficiaries back to work
Posted by Ollie Murphy · September 19, 2023 1:15 PM
Electronic Income Management
Posted by ACT New Zealand ACT · June 16, 2022 1:18 PM
Helping sick and drug-addicted beneficiaries back to work
“Abandoning people to a life on welfare is a waste of human potential – but that’s what Labour is doing to thousands of New Zealanders right now,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT will provide hope and opportunity by helping sick and drug-addicted beneficiaries who can get off the benefit and back into work to do so.”
Read moreOne in five kids in benefit dependent households
“This year’s Salvation Army State of the Nation report shows that there are 208,900 kids living in benefit-dependent households, 30,000 more than when Labour took office,” says ACT’s Social Development spokesperson Karen Chhour.
Read moreKaren Chhour
Hon Karen Chhour is the Minister for Children and for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence. Karen grew up interacting with the state care system, and was elected to Parliament as an ACT Party MP in 2020 with the goal of reforming Oranga Tamariki. Before politics, Karen was self-employed in the New Zealand-made clothing industry. She is a mother of four and has lived on Auckland's North Shore for the past 30 years.