20 May 2021

Budget 2021: Robertson touts 'biggest benefit rise in a generation'

From Checkpoint, 5:07 pm on 20 May 2021

"The biggest benefit rise in a generation" - the headline of Budget 2021.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson has delivered a boost for beneficiaries in his first Budget of the Labour majority government.

That's the big ticket item - at more than $3 billion over four years - but there was also more money for Pharmac, District Health Boards and to fund health and education reforms.

There's a billion-dollar package for Māori, including money to set up the promised Māori Health Authority to provide a thousand homes.

RNZ deputy political editor Craig McCulloch and visual journalist Dom Thomas have the details.