8 Mar 2022

Mother of seven pitches tent, cites lack of WINZ help

From Morning Report, 7:37 am on 8 March 2022

A homeless mother with seven young children says she had to pitch a tent in a park during a storm after Work and Income told her it couldn't help.

Mariska Kruger, from Napier, says despite the agency knowing she had a seven-week-old baby and nowhere to go, she was repeatedly told there was nothing it could do.

RNZ investigative journalist Anusha Bradley filed this report.