CPAG Joins United Call For the Government to Support Healthy Relationships
“Nobody should be forced to give up their financial independence, or to be forced to stay in potentially harmful relationships because of badly ...
CPAG Says Relationship Facilitation Guidelines Are Out-Dated and May Be Harmful for Children
CPAG is deeply concerned about the impact for sole parents and their children of losing their financial independence when Work and Income decides the ...
Children and Their Parents Need a ‘Yes’ From Government
“What we are asking is that they make some simple, effective changes that will relieve stress among low-income families on benefits.”
Beneficiaries to PM: The Welfare System Needs to Urgently Change
If we want New Zealand to be the best place in the world to be a child, the Government needs to increase benefits, remove sanctions, individualise ...
CPAG Mourns Passing of Kathryn and Calls for a More Just Welfare System
Kathryn’s courage and strength in fighting the system that held her a prisoner to poverty were there until the last.
New Report Reflects Outdated and Damaging Welfare Relationship Rules
Welfare system rules around relationships unjustly punish and stigmatise already struggling single parents, says Child Poverty Action Group.
It’s Time for the Punitive, Stigmatising Nature of Welfare to Change
Any relationships, even very unsatisfactory ones that hurt children, mean sole parents can lose their independent source of income.
CPAG Calls for an Independent Review of All Benefit Debts
“New Zealanders would not want hundreds of thousands of dollars spent pursuing low-income parents living honestly while Government Ministries try to ...
Kathryn’s Story Highlights Need for Major Welfare Overhaul
How the Government spent well over $100,000 and 15 years pursuing a chronically-ill beneficiary mother for a debt she should not have.