'Cruel' to delay meth-test compensation - advocates

An anti-poverty campaigner is shocked a stumbling block to compensating state house tenants wrongly-evicted for meth contamination has only just been flagged. Welfare laws will likely need amending before Housing New Zealand can pay compensation to tenants who lost their homes and possessions during the discredited methamphetamine testing era. The Ministry of Social Development says it is preparing urgent advice for government ministers, as any compensation paid to beneficiaries could compromise what assistance they are entitled to. Ricardo Menendez-March, from the group Auckland Action Against Poverty, told RNZ reporter Eva Corlett that some of those entitled to compo are stuck in a bureaucratic merry-go-round.