I'm quitting work to go on a sickness benefit

[scumdog]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/new...its-since-1984

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett is vowing to crack down on benefit abuse after revelations a Christchurch beneficiary family with gang connections has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over 25 years.

Information obtained by The Press shows Marcia Harris and her husband, former gang leader Darryl Harris, have claimed unemployment and sickness benefits continuously since 1984.

They are one of about 300 couples who draw about $1000 a week in benefits from the taxpayer and are the subjects of a government audit.

They have four children, three of whom are also drawing benefits.

In addition, they have received $30,000 in special-needs grants since 2000, including $16,000 in the past two years.

Among the successful applications were grants to put new tyres on the couple's 2007 silver Chrysler saloon and to fence a swimming pool at one of several properties the family owns in Christchurch.

The couple claimed they needed to sell the property and could not do so unless the pool was properly fenced.....yadda yadda yadda..

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I see things are about to/have changed for Mr "I am leeching off you tax-payers" Harris, good shit.

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...there is a symbiotic relationship between govt departments like winz and their 'clients'...without the bottom feeders a whole heap of rorting bastards and bitches who run these departments wouldn't be on the huge salaries and fringe benefits that they themselves suck from the taxpayer...NZ if run properly, by honest, diligent and caring leaders would not have the social disorders and problems that we face now...but it would definitely be a whole lot different than it is now...maybe not how everyone who treads the WHEEL of WANT would like it to be...ship the fucking lot off to the Auckland Islands...preferably under their own steam in a leaky boat...bottom feeders and rorting leadership...I bet they would all get along fine together...honour amongst thieves and all that....

[Kickaha]

I see things are about to/have changed for Mr "I am leeching off you tax-payers" Harris, good shit.

Took 26 years of bludging off a sickness benefit though , 476 comment about it already

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-sto...-for-26-years/

A former Christchurch gang leader will lose the sickness benefit he has claimed for 26 years.

Ministry of Social Development chief executive Peter Hughes said Darryl Harris had been told his sickness benefit would stop from January 10 because "he no longer meets standard eligibility requirements", The Press reported .

Hughes was replying to an Official Information Act request by the newspaper.

The decision comes as the Government takes a tougher line on benefit claims, including work-testing for sickness benefits from May.

Harris, who has three months to appeal against the decision, and his wife, Marcia Robins, made headlines a year ago when it was revealed they had been claiming unemployment and sickness benefits continuously since 1984.

They had received $30,000 in special-needs grants since 2000, including payments for new tyres for their 2007 Chrysler saloon and to fence a swimming pool at one of their Christchurch properties.

Previous efforts to cancel Harris' sickness benefit failed after he obtained a medical opinion that he was addicted to cannabis. The opinion was from one of Work and Income's designated doctors after the agency appealed against a medical opinion that Harris was suffering "stress and anxiety" over being work-tested.

Harris could not be contacted yesterday.
A family member has previously said it was difficult for Harris to find work because "he is an ex-gang member".