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COVID-19 Requires Urgent Fix To Welfare System
Monday, 16 March 2020, 9:55 am | Auckland Action Against Poverty
Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling on the Government to urgently make our welfare system fit-for-purpose to handle the effects of COVID-19 and a likely recession. “The Government needs to urgently increase benefits, permanently remove the stand-down ... More >>
Sallies Report Confirms Urgent Need For Benefit Increase
Wednesday, 12 February 2020, 10:49 am | Auckland Action Against Poverty
The Salvation Army State of the Nation report calling for benefit level increases and public housing confirms what frontline advocates, unions, Government groups, and faith groups have been saying for years. Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling ... More >>
Low-income families left out of infrastructure package
Wednesday, 29 January 2020, 2:01 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
The Government has spent the largest portion of its infrastructure package entrenching projects greenlighted by the previous Government, instead of prioritising low-income families who are living in infrastructure deprived neighbourhoods and poor-quality ... More >>
Welfare figures show urgent need for benefit level increase
Thursday, 23 January 2020, 3:39 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
The latest figures by the Ministry on Social Development show that benefit sanctions are increasing and a record number of families are requiring hardship grants to cover basic expenses such as rent and food, due to low benefit levels that are below the ... More >>
Government’s state housing targets out of touch with needs
Tuesday, 14 January 2020, 12:23 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
Figures showing that the housing waiting list has reached a record 14,500 households demonstrates that the Government’s investment towards building new state housing is inadequate and needs reviewing. Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling on ... More >>
Call for harmful relationship rules to be scrapped
Monday, 25 November 2019, 7:08 am | Auckland Action Against Poverty
On Monday 25th of November , International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, ActionStation, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), and Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) will come together with people who have directly experienced the impacts ... More >>
Call for harmful relationship rules to be scrapped
Sunday, 24 November 2019, 1:44 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
On Monday 25th of November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, ActionStation, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), and Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) will come together with people who have directly experienced the impacts ... More >>
Record number of beneficiaries affected by punitive sanction
Friday, 1 November 2019, 10:20 am | Auckland Action Against Poverty
Benefit sanctions for people with a warrant to arrest are on the rise, with Māori being disproportionately targeted by the Ministry. A record 2,616 people sanctioned in 2018, over 70% were Māori. This is one of the sanctions that the Government’s ... More >>
National Party’s welfare policy out of touch
Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 9:25 am | Auckland Action Against Poverty
“The National Party’s proposal to cut gang’s members benefit if they can’t prove they don’t have illegal income or assets will do nothing to reduce poverty or violence. Giving Work and Income staff discretionary powers to determine who is ... More >>
Inaction on energy hardship hurting beneficiaries
Thursday, 3 October 2019, 1:11 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
The Government’s response to the Electricity Price Review will do little to alleviate growing energy hardship that affects low-income communities. Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling for tangible action to reduce power prices, including putting ... More >>
Limited free lunches won’t offer solutions to core issue
Thursday, 29 August 2019, 2:49 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
The Government’s announced today that it will trial the provision of free lunches for 30 schools in order to reduce child poverty, hoping to expand it to 120 schools by 2021. Auckland Action Against Poverty welcomes the move towards the provision ... More >>
Tobacco giants lobbying power must be reined in by Govt
Wednesday, 28 August 2019, 1:55 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling on the Government to better regulate tobacco giants such as Philip Morris and Imperial Brands following attempts by Philip Morris to aggressively sell vaping products to low-income communities. Philip Morris has ... More >>
Pressure grows on Gov to end drug testing benefit sanctions
Friday, 23 August 2019, 1:24 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
Auckland Action Against Poverty joins the Children’s Commissioner , The Green Party , The New Zealand Drugs Foundation , Child Poverty Action Group and other organisations in the calls for an immediate end to the drug testing benefit sanctions. More >>
Ongoing drug-test sanctions contradicts Govt’s rhetoric
Monday, 19 August 2019, 8:06 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
Ongoing drug-test sanctions contradicts Government’s rhetoric on drugs Reports that two-thirds of beneficiaries who fail drug tests are still having their benefit sanctioned contradicts the Government’s so-called health approach to drugs. Auckland ... More >>
HNZ tenants left behind by new home standards
Sunday, 30 June 2019, 5:36 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
The first part of the Government’s introduction of new standards for rental properties kicks in tomorrow. These new standards will require to have a heater that can heat a living room to 18 degrees, ventilation fans in kitchens and bathrooms, and ceiling ... More >>
‘Rogue landlord’ a product of a broken housing system
Thursday, 6 June 2019, 2:46 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling on the landlord found guilty "deliberately and knowingly" failing to lodge 81 tenancy bonds should be banned from leasing future properties, and the case should be a wake-up call for Government to act faster ... More >>
Not Enough Left in the Budget for low-income communities
Monday, 3 June 2019, 3:57 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
Auckland Action Against Poverty is hosting a family friendly Community Hui to highlight the lack of meaningful initiatives by Government in this year’s Wellbeing Budget to genuinely address growing levels of poverty and homelessness . The event will ... More >>
Wellbeing budget fails to deliver for beneficiaries
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 3:45 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
The wellbeing budget has failed to introduce additional meaningful and immediate measures to improve the wellbeing of beneficiaries’ lives. More >>
AAAP calls on MSD CEO and deputy CEO to resign
Thursday, 16 May 2019, 9:14 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling on the CEO and deputy CEO of the Ministry of Social Development to resign following a report by the Privacy Commissioner, which found that the Ministry was unlawfully breaching beneficiaries’ privacy. The report ... More >>
Privacy Commissioner report shows Govt breaching privacy
Thursday, 16 May 2019, 9:38 am | Auckland Action Against Poverty
Privacy Commissioner report shows Govt unlawfully breaching privacy of thousands of beneficiaries More >>
