lynden
12th November 2004, 08:47 AM
DOES FAMILY ALLOWANCE EXISTS IN NZ????
Diny
12th November 2004, 11:50 AM
Lynden
I'm pretty sure it doesn't I'm afraid. Not as a general thing for every child anyway.
There may be various credits etc you can get for kids if you're on low income, single parent or something like that, but not the automatic monthly allowance for each child.
I would LOVE to proved wrong on this one .... please somebody tell me I'm wrong !!!!! :hopeso
Diny
I'm pretty sure it doesn't I'm afraid. Not as a general thing for every child anyway.
There may be various credits etc you can get for kids if you're on low income, single parent or something like that, but not the automatic monthly allowance for each child.
I would LOVE to proved wrong on this one .... please somebody tell me I'm wrong !!!!! :hopeso
Diny
lynden
12th November 2004, 12:33 PM
HI Diny
not that short of cash really,or won`t be in NZ ,,,,,, but just wondered if we have to let the child benefit people and the tax man know we are leaving this country,,obviously the answer is yes ,,what about national insurance and state pensions,,maybe thats another thread,
Cheers Lynden :cheers
not that short of cash really,or won`t be in NZ ,,,,,, but just wondered if we have to let the child benefit people and the tax man know we are leaving this country,,obviously the answer is yes ,,what about national insurance and state pensions,,maybe thats another thread,
Cheers Lynden :cheers
Gran
12th November 2004, 01:13 PM
Yes you do get assistence for children, depending on how many, and how much you earn. This may help.
http://www.workandincome.govt.nz/working-for-families/index.html
Also you dont need to tell the NI people you are leaving, if you decide to go back you can do a catch up payment.
http://www.workandincome.govt.nz/working-for-families/index.html
Also you dont need to tell the NI people you are leaving, if you decide to go back you can do a catch up payment.
Timbo
15th November 2004, 07:06 AM
This may seem a bit off topic, but I thought it was relevant:
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Hungry child had to walk 15km to school
14.11.2004
1.00pm - By STEPHEN HULL
Policies aimed at addressing child poverty have been condemned in a new report which claims the problem is so bad that a hungry child had to walk 15km to school because he didn't have the bus fare.
The plight of children living in grinding poverty is exposed in the Child Poverty Action Group report which claims there are "serious flaws" in the way government policies are dealing with the country's poor.
The report claims around 175,000 children nationwide are living in poverty and struggling to break free from health and social problems.
Poverty was a major problem among sole parent, benefit-dependent Maori and Pacific Island families.
Curently there are 1.1 million children and young people in New Zealand.
One case study included in the report details claims by "educator" Therese Ireland that at one Auckland secondary school a 14-year-old boy had to walk 15km to school because his family could not afford to give him bus money.
The boy had no breakfast, was given no lunch, and hid the fact that he was hungry and exhausted until he kept fainting in class.
The school counsellor found there was no food in the boy's house and he was starving.
His parents worked at several cleaning jobs and the household was basically run by the boy's intellectually disabled older brother.
The report claims New Zealand lags dangerously behind countries such as Australia and Britain in helping vulnerable youngsters.
It is also critical of the Government's "Working for Families" package, claiming it will do little to help.
"Working for Families does the least for the most marginal families," say the report's authors Susan St John and David Craig.
The centrepiece of this year's Budget, the Working for Families package, costing more than $1 billion a year, is designed to help more than 300,000 working families with dependent children.
However, the report claims: "This delivers too little too late for New Zealand's poorest children. Many families will receive income increases of less than $10 per child per week.
"Even in these times of high employment, this report shows that the poorest families are struggling."
However, Minister for Social Development and Employment Steve Maharey told the Herald on Sunday he found the report offensive.
"We are the only Government to have done serious work into child poverty and discover what it costs for a family to survive. It beggars belief to say we should simply keep lifting the level of benefits. That is just not realistic," he said.
"These cases are totally unacceptable but we are doing our best to solve them. New Zealand has the second lowest unemployment rate in the world so there are opportunities for people to find work.
"I care intensely about these issues and I get up each morning thinking about how we can improve poverty in New Zealand. We don't run cut-price policies."
- HERALD ON SUNDAY
Search NZ HeraldNew ZealandWorldwide Advanced Search / Help
NZ News
>> Home >> NZ News
Hungry child had to walk 15km to school
14.11.2004
1.00pm - By STEPHEN HULL
Policies aimed at addressing child poverty have been condemned in a new report which claims the problem is so bad that a hungry child had to walk 15km to school because he didn't have the bus fare.
The plight of children living in grinding poverty is exposed in the Child Poverty Action Group report which claims there are "serious flaws" in the way government policies are dealing with the country's poor.
The report claims around 175,000 children nationwide are living in poverty and struggling to break free from health and social problems.
Poverty was a major problem among sole parent, benefit-dependent Maori and Pacific Island families.
Curently there are 1.1 million children and young people in New Zealand.
One case study included in the report details claims by "educator" Therese Ireland that at one Auckland secondary school a 14-year-old boy had to walk 15km to school because his family could not afford to give him bus money.
The boy had no breakfast, was given no lunch, and hid the fact that he was hungry and exhausted until he kept fainting in class.
The school counsellor found there was no food in the boy's house and he was starving.
His parents worked at several cleaning jobs and the household was basically run by the boy's intellectually disabled older brother.
The report claims New Zealand lags dangerously behind countries such as Australia and Britain in helping vulnerable youngsters.
It is also critical of the Government's "Working for Families" package, claiming it will do little to help.
"Working for Families does the least for the most marginal families," say the report's authors Susan St John and David Craig.
The centrepiece of this year's Budget, the Working for Families package, costing more than $1 billion a year, is designed to help more than 300,000 working families with dependent children.
However, the report claims: "This delivers too little too late for New Zealand's poorest children. Many families will receive income increases of less than $10 per child per week.
"Even in these times of high employment, this report shows that the poorest families are struggling."
However, Minister for Social Development and Employment Steve Maharey told the Herald on Sunday he found the report offensive.
"We are the only Government to have done serious work into child poverty and discover what it costs for a family to survive. It beggars belief to say we should simply keep lifting the level of benefits. That is just not realistic," he said.
"These cases are totally unacceptable but we are doing our best to solve them. New Zealand has the second lowest unemployment rate in the world so there are opportunities for people to find work.
"I care intensely about these issues and I get up each morning thinking about how we can improve poverty in New Zealand. We don't run cut-price policies."
- HERALD ON SUNDAY
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