Monday, 3 May 2021, 9:59 am
It’s been two years since the Welfare Expert Advisory
Group (WEAG) released their report ‘Whakamana Tāngata -
Restoring Dignity to Social Security’ and in that period
none of the full 42 recommendations have been implemented by
this Labour government.
We are extremely disappointed
and frustrated at the lack of action and implementation of
recommendations of this report, which is now two years old,
says Brooke Pao Stanley, Coordinator with Auckland Action
Against Poverty.
The WEAG report is also a pre-Covid
document, which means much has changed in the past two
years. The recommendation for increasing core benefits