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Govt: You're not sick, get a job - Video

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:00
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett says thousands collecting sickness and invalid benefits are well enough to work. - read full story »
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Comments [53]

anil
08 Apr 2011 7:51p.m.

anything as

Pauline
21 Feb 2011 10:36p.m.

Where are all these jobs coming from....????? I have a son on Invalids benefit and he is in residential care and he only gets $50 personal allowance a week... it cost that much to travel to a job, let alone to buy clothes,go to the GP, get prescriptions, have a life... He has had a small job for a while but he reads at the age of 7 and is in hospital alot..... no employer is going to want to employ someone who has to have time off work to go to hospital.....yes get all the people off the benefit by improving your WINZ systems so there is less fraud but dont make parents of Special Needs adults poorer than they already are because they have to spend every last Cent on their adult disabled children for the rest of their lives. Blanket rules are unfair to those who truely need the support. Sharpen up your WINZ processes... employ staff with nouse and integrity to screen the applicants.

Mark
21 Feb 2011 8:01p.m.

Good to see the Government taking on abuse in the welfare system. Don't otehr people find it surprising that invalids and sick people seem to be increasing much faster than general population growth!

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