The estimated time that work-ready Jobseeker recipients will spend on income support until they reach retirement age has jumped by 23 per cent since 2019, amid a “worrying” slowdown of the benefits system that could strain government finances and trap thousands of people in poverty.
Growing up in a household where no adult is working, is one of the main indicators of likely problems later in life.
For example, Sole Parent Support clients are projected to spend an average of 17 working-age years on a benefit (up from 12.5 years in 2019), but the upper quartile of this group – about 18,700 people – are expected to spend more than 25 years in the system.
about 2000 teens on the youth Payment or Young Parent Payment now expected to spend an average of 24 working-age years on a benefit – a 46 per cent increase from the 2019 estimate.
Labour's legacy again.
In June 2022, Taylor Fry predicted Māori would make up nearly half of work-ready Jobseeker clients by the end of this decade, up from 35 per cent in 2010.
Absolutely the wrong trend.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
1 comment:
Persons on benefits today enjoy the standard of living of a worker in the early 1950s . Apart from fish and chips perhaps once a week most folk purchased almost no prepared food. Beneficiaries can now even afford to run cars. The benefits are too high relative to wages. If not cursed with the colonist urge to advance, and content with tikanga/ te ao approach, an easy life, now often with a sparkling (at start) insulated state unit. Not even lawns to mow as most had in the 1950s (by handmower). The life suits very many. Time to attend Waitangi revolution carnival meetings and the like. Often considerable scope for hidden income working within family/hapu business', within ot without the Law. Those who fritter their youth and beyond in study, forego multiple children to save, venture into risky business, struggle buy homes which might leak, flood, or slip away, etc are very often mugs. If it were not for immigrants the benefit classes will breed to democratic control of the nation. The Maori Health Authority, stocked by pro maori, will not discourage.
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