$48,000 P.A. no skills easy hours, call me.

[allycatz]

The problem with spouting off the figures people on benefits earn, is that is doesn't tell the true story or breakdown of figures. The benefit amounts themselves eg DPB is not high, around $270 per week. The rest of it is made up of Accom supplements, hardship benefits and family support plus a disability allowance for on going medical related costs. The latter aforementioned payments are available to ANYONE with a community service card and Family Assistance is available to incomes up to $90k per year dependant on the number of kids and their ages

[Phurrball]

Paula Bennett has done the right thing. Any fool can work out what a person would earn on the dole/benefit/whatever.

Another non-issue that the media is hyping up since there is obviously no other newsworthy events that require their valuable time...

Quite so!

Not quite - while the amounts of a benefit and the various additional support that go with it are public record, what a specific person is receiving and why are not.

Surely all the noise and fuss is not concealing anything important at all...

[smoky]

I do wonder where the father(s) of her children are though? Naturally he expects the taxpayer to pick up the tab......

he's working his arse off - earning an average wage (less than what she's getting) and pays more than his fair share in maintenance payments.

She left him because she didn't love him anymore?
Why would anyone stay married when the government makes it so easy, actually rewards you for leaving? I think she deserves a statehouse as well.

[allycatz]

She left him because she didn't love him anymore?

And how many woman find themselves on a benefit because their husbands left for that very same reason, then get crucified for living compliments of the taxpayer?

[Mr Merde]

Its a very lucrative profession in this country.

Especially if you know how to milk the system.

Do they declare on the census and their passort the occupation of

BROOD MARE

[Finn]

BUSTED!!!

The good man at whailoil.co.nz has busted this bullshit wide open. One of the welfare bitches has been bleating on TradeMe, the countries most visited website. So much for being offended for her life failures being made public. Also, this is the same bitch that made us pay $400 for hair extensions.

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/content/la...des-their-face

[Winston001]

Full Listener story here. Some parts of it more complimentary.

Sounds about the level of some here.

LOL. Paula Bennett doesn't come across as the sharpest knife in the drawer but in her case, I think it works to her advantage. Mark Sainsbury got nowhere on Closeup because his questions went right by her. Plus she talks like a regular person.

Not what I want to see in a Cabinet Minister but.....

[Morcs]

Since when should a solo mum be paid 48k a year to bring up a kid whos probably going to end up in jail?

[Mully]

Full Listener story here. Some parts of it more complimentary.

Not sure what this has got to do with this situation, however, I don't think it's a big deal. I know several very high up, intellegent people who want reports to be on one, bullet-pointed page. The very nature of an executive summary. If they want more information on a specific point, they just ask for it. If my experience of reading reports is any indication, there's every chance that a Ministry report is full of verbiage and I'd probably avoid reading the bastards as well.

I'm not claiming she's the smartest knife in the drawer, but her desire to avoid long reports doesn't mean she's window-licking dumb, either.

[allycatz]

Since when should a solo mum be paid 48k a year to bring up a kid whos probably going to end up in jail?

Thats a rather large assumption???

[SPman]

What a vindictive, jealous,whining, non-thinking, knee jerk reactionary load of old twaddle!
"She gets more than me and shes on a benefit and Im jealous as fuck so she must be a lazy whining smoking lowlife who fucks every man she sees so she can live a life of luxuryand who took advantage of the Labour parties policies to bleed me, the taxpayer dry! Thank god she got pwned by Paula Bennet who was in exactly the same position as these people are and used the same benefits to pull herself out of the hole that these people are asking for."

Stand back and look at yourselves!

I haven't heard so much whining since the diff on the Transit shit

So - everyone on here would be happy to have all the details of their income published by the government, huh?

You're fucking pathetic !

[Winston001]

"She gets more than me and shes on a benefit and Im jealous as fuck so she must be a lazy whining smoking lowlife who fucks every man she sees so she can live a life of luxury and who took advantage of the Labour parties policies to bleed me, the taxpayer dry! Thank god she got pwned by Paula Bennet who was in exactly the same position as these people are and used the same benefits to pull herself out of the hole that these people are asking for."

Good man. Nice bit of tongue-in-cheek speaking up for the ordinary taxpayer.

[MisterD]

So - everyone on here would be happy to have all the details of their income published by the government, huh?

That's a false analogy if ever there was one...the money I earn is my money, the government then takes some by force. The money a bene gets is not their money, it's a handout and if you want to start making political captial out of your situation then the taxpayers who foot the bill have a right to all the information.

[Oscar]

So - everyone on here would be happy to have all the details of their income published by the government, huh?

You're fucking pathetic !

You seem to have missed an important point.
The money we're speaking of is taxpayer funded and paid based on published guidelines.

[Headbanger]

So - everyone on here would be happy to have all the details of their income published by the government, huh?

You're fucking pathetic !

I would if I was be paid by the government and had decided to make an issue about the amount of assistance I was receiving, That information is the most important part of the issue, In fact the entire issues hinges of it. It needs to be known.

Too bad that info makes them look like twats aye?, which in turn means you get to label the tax payers fucking pathetic?

LMFAO.Nice logic.