Paula Bennett denies breaching Privacy Act

22 Oct 2009 08:28p.m.

worried wrote:

Worried!!!!
New Zealand what are we all letting happen..

STOP NOW
THE PRIVACY ACT MEANS PRIVACY

John needs to sort it out.

02 Aug 2009 08:57a.m.

praveena wrote:

well paula shows her power and useing her past histry as a single mum and thats the fact.she needs a to let it out...we work and pay tax !and her wages.what has national gvmt did 4r us so far...im a single hard working mum,,im strugling.who care about it .not the gvmt !i have too...minister only care about there stomack full .not 4r poor people..we love labour gvmt.cuss we are labours...

01 Aug 2009 11:28p.m.

Dale wrote:

The Privacy Act means privacy. What gives the Minister the right to break this? Must admit it's a great way of quashing debate in a Democracy. I think this Minister will crash and burn in the next few months by sticking her foot in it again. A bit like Christine Rankin being Families Commissioner! What a joke, getting more hilarious each day.

01 Aug 2009 01:24p.m.

Gayle wrote:

What Paula Bennett did is despicable, she breeched the privacy act. But normal tax payers need to stop whining about bludgers on benefits as everyone is entitled to pay their bills and people on benefits pay taxes too!

31 Jul 2009 09:56p.m.

Jaydon Murray wrote:

Paula Bennett has done exactly that Breached Privacy - I worked for the Commonwealth Governtment of Australia for 15years in an enviroment which is known as the largest Financial assistance organisation throughout the world - Social Welfare...All those who received financial assistance were treated as individuals and all their information held within the department was kept confidential, not even other government agencies or politicians could access their records. Customers/clients information is regarded as CONFIDENTIAL meaning just that...

30 Jul 2009 06:44p.m.

David wrote:

Its funny to look at all the bigotted tax payers who believe that they should have a say in the lives of beneficiaries.. the average wage is $40,000 roughly a year so in tax that is 8,000 when you divide that by the number of beneficiaries around 300,000 (inlcuding unemplyment, dpb, dieing people or chronically ill people on the invalids benefit each normal tax payer per year pays the equivelent of 20 cents per year to every beneficiary.

Get over it, seriously corporate tax's pay for the majority of beneficiaries, individual tax payers think that 20 cents per year gives them the individual right to take away peoples privacy, freedoms and dignities.

Descrimination is supposedly illegal, if I am dying on a benefit I have the right to be able to pay my bills and afford the cost of health care that will ease my suffering.

And because the state caused that to be the case they are the ones that should be footing the bill.

Paula Bennett believes she has the right as the head of the one ministry where descrimination is still practiced on a daily basis particularly in respect to marital status testing and means testing to supercede the law at every turn.

She has every qualification needed to be a sitting National M.P no conscience.

30 Jul 2009 04:08p.m.

aly wrote:

Paula's information is selective.. Bad taste to bring up a previous failure by the mum to get free of the benefit. Enterprise allowance is not a 10k grant .. you go OFF the benefit completely and get 200 a week for 3 months then 150 a week for 3 months .. to say its a 10k grant is misleading. Paula needs to deal to the fact that solo mums are paying secondary tax on the first dollar they earn on a job .. basically taking a 20 hour a week job for a solo mum makes them worse off a week than not working at all .. There is no incentive to get off the benefit thats the problem!!

30 Jul 2009 04:01p.m.

Jim wrote:

Go Westie wheeler! You're O for owesome x

30 Jul 2009 02:44p.m.

Paul wrote:

Paula Bennett is the best thing that ever happened to social welfare - she's keeping it as real as it gets... a future Prime Minister (please God)

30 Jul 2009 12:25p.m.

Aki wrote:

Paula Bennett feels that its OK to release this information about the 2 womens benefits because she says that they put themselves out there by going to the media, about the TIA cuts. Two totally different things I think. However, seeing as she has now spoken publicly (on Campbell live) on how she had received benefits and study assistance, then I would very much like to see exactly what she was earning as a beneficiary, and how much assistance she received whilst studying over the years.
Methinks, that it will be a cold day in hell when she releases this information!
Maybe some other Minister will help, from perhaps Ummmm... Labour?