Forcing people to repay welfare ‘loans’ traps them in a poverty cycle – where is the policy debate about that?
- Written by Hanna Wilberg, Associate professor - Law, University of Auckland
The National Party’s pledge to apply sanctions to unemployed people receiving a welfare payment, if they are “persistently” failing to meet the criteria for receiving the benefit, has attracted plenty of comment and criticism.
Less talked about has been the party’s promise to index benefits to inflation to keep pace with the...
