MSD

Autism New Zealand says the Ministry for Social Development is trying to save money by declining funding applications for people diagnosed via telehealth. Audio

Researchers into poverty are asking the government where the evidence is that its new benefit sanction regime will work.
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Debt owed to government agencies by the country's poorest residents adds up to more than three billion dollars, and there's no easy solution Audio

It's a multimillion-dollar ministerial blind spot that is being called into question. Opposition parties are demanding accountability after revelations millions of dollars was shelled out by the… Audio

The government is putting $24.1 million of further funding towards Māori trades and training and reducing barriers to employment for rangatahi.

Social Development and Employment Minister Carmel… Audio

People with disabilities in relationships are paying for the price of love - losing their allowances because they're coupled up.

MSD assumes people in relationships share their finances, but for… Audio

The government's counting another drop in unemployment numbers as a win - but others say they don't paint the whole picture.

Over the past three months, more than 31,000 people found jobs and got off… Audio

Thousands of women who had their benefits docked are still waiting for their cases to be reviewed more than two years after the Minister ordered MSD to take a second look.

The women had up to $28 a… Video, Audio

Parliament's been told gang members in emergency housing are not a "huge issue" in regional New Zealand.

Ministers have been facing questions about why gang members are allowed into emergency… Audio

Advocacy group Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) has 38 cases on its books, with women appealing past MSD sanctions, in the hope of getting years of deductions repaid.

One of those women has… Video, Audio

Welfare advocates say thousands of women who had benefits docked unfairly because they could not or would not name their child's father could be entitled to significant lump sum refunds.

But the… Video, Audio

A philanthropic foundation is taking legal action against the Ministry for Social Development over its failure to take legal action against a single wage subsidy recipient.

More than $13 billion was… Audio

Record numbers of people are asking the government for help to pay for their food and accommodation, with frontline community workers labelling the situation a 'crisis'.

New figures from the Ministry… Audio

The government and Auckland Council say they're landing jobs for beneficiaries as part of a scheme to deal with the looming skills gap.

As they pour billions of dollars into infrastructure projects… Audio

Some rural mayors and city councillors are calling for a big increase in funding for a scheme to help young people become more employable by learning to drive.  Audio

Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni concedes it's shocking to see beneficiaries queuing up in the cold and dark for food and clothing grants; but she says it doesn't have to be that way. She… Video, Audio

Auckland Action Against Poverty advocates meet with beneficiaries outside a South Auckland Work and Income office every Thursday morning to help them with their claims. They say the situation is… Video, Audio

A beneficiary says the stress of a long MSD fraud investigation drove her to attempt suicide and has ruined her life, even though she was cleared in an independent review of her case. She spoke with… Audio