The Whanganui Budget Advisory Service is facing a diminishing budget with a time-limited boost in funding not being renewed by the Government. The Ministry.
Winter hardship is looming for many in the Whanganui community despite the “amazing” winter energy payment. Niwa forecasters are expecting a milder winter.
Back-to-school costs are hitting family budgets hard this year and New Zealand’s poverty-fighting charity KidsCan is finding it harder to meet the demand for.
Budgeting services say they are seeing families who have made all the cutbacks possible, yet prices just keep on going up. At one supermarket, a dozen barn eggs increased by 168 percent, from $3.91 to $10.49.