Thursday, 20 May 2021, 1:57 pm
· Weekly benefit rates lifted by between $32 and $55 per
adult, in line with a key recommendation from the Welfare
Expert Advisory Group (WEAG).
· In total, 109,000
families and whānau with children will be, on average, $175
a week better off as a result of changes made by the
Government since 2017.
· Student living support will
increase by $25 per week on 1 April 2022.
Between
19,000 and 33,000 children are projected to be lifted out of
poverty on the after-housing-costs measure in 2022/23 as a
result of increases to benefit levels in Budget
2021.
All benefit rates will increase by $20 a week
from 1 July this year. A second increase will occur on 1