In 1968 the government agreed to introduce a domestic purposes emergency benefit for circumstances not covered by a statutory benefit. Viewed as an emergency benefit which specifically met the needs of sole parents, grouping deserted wives and separated and divorced women together.[i]
Footnotes
[i] go to main content Margaret McClure, A Civilised Community: A History of Social Security in New Zealand 1898–1998, Auckland, 1998, p. 158.; The April report: report of the Royal Commission on Social Policy’, Volume 1: New Zealand Today, New Zealand Royal Commission on Social Policy, Wellington, 1988, p. 36.; Brian Easton, Social Policy and the Welfare State in New Zealand, Australia, 1980, p. 68.