14 Aug 2024

PM overstates govt's increase in case managers

From Checkpoint, 5:26 pm on 14 August 2024

The Prime Minister has made another flub when promoting his beneficiary crackdown, massively overstating his government's increase in case managers. It marks the second misstep this week after Christopher Luxon was unable to tell Morning Report how much a Jobseeker benefit was. Labour says the errors prove the prime minister is removed from the reality of those in poverty, deputy political editor Craig McCulloch reports.