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Covid-19 exacerbated existing levels of material and emotional hardship for people on low core benefit rates, a new study has found.
Dr Louise Humpage, a sociologist at the University of Auckland who conducted the study in collaboration with Child Poverty Action Group, Auckland Action Against Poverty and FIRST Union, says most benefit recipients were struggling to survive financially before the national lockdown.
“Covid-19 cost hikes in basic groceries and other goods really pushed them over the edge,” she says.
And the situation was particularly bad for sole parents and people with disabilities or chronic illness.
“Although many New Zealanders think benefit recipients got a $25 per week increase back in April 2020, many of our interviewees said it didn’t make one iota of difference because they only got a fraction of that due to clawbacks in supplementary assistance.”
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