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MSD figures reveal $631m paid in benefits across Bay of Plenty last year

The report revealed that Rotorua paid out 3114 of the special grants that enable users to pay for temporary motel accommodation, totalling $4,674,061. The only other region to hit four figures was Tauranga, with 1469 grants at a cost of $2,561,353. The combined total of grants paid out between Tauranga, Kawerau, Ōpōtiki, Western Bay of Plenty and Whakatāne was 2265 grants. Across the Bay of Plenty in the same period a total of $8,171,940 was paid out in special needs grants, transitional housing places and public housing tenancies. Rotorua also topped the list for Housing Register applicants at 637, followed again by Tauranga (520). The report also included data on benefit payments over the calender year 2020, which totalled $631.2m.

Did the 2021 Budget really reverse 1991 s Mother of All Budgets benefit cuts?

Budget prioritises righting inequality wrongs

Budget prioritises righting inequality wrongs Newsroom 6 hrs ago © Provided by Newsroom Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. Thirty years on from the ‘Mother of all Budgets’ the Labour-majority Government has targeted inequality, but it will be April next year before the full benefit lift is truly felt, writes political editor Jo Moir Finance Minister Grant Robertson has delivered his fourth Budget – one he describes as the first of three this term that will “make a material difference’’ and “repair some of the damage’’ of the 1991 Budget, for those on the lowest incomes.

The Government is not tinkering : Labour hits back at National, Greens over welfare attacks

The Government is not tinkering : Labour hits back at National, Greens over welfare attacks Newshub 2 hrs ago Zane Small © Image - Newshub; Video - The Hui Related video: $25 benefit increase making a difference for beneficiaries during lockdown - Carmel Sepuloni (from April 2020). Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni has hit back at National for accusing her of misrepresenting data, and the Greens for saying Labour is tinkering with welfare reform. Sepuloni celebrated a record 32,880 beneficiaries moving into work in the latest welfare statistics, the biggest jump since electronic records began in 1996. Her National Party opponent, social development spokesperson Louise Upston, accused Sepuloni of misrepresenting the data by not pointing out that 46,437 benefits were granted during the same period. 

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