Additional social welfare reforms

Release of DSW’s Briefing to the Incoming Minister, published in 1993, raised concerns about increasing number of sole parents, and long-term unemployment following the passage of Employment Contracts Act. The fourth National Government's Prime Ministerial Task Force on Employment, 1994, proposed reforms in youth unemployment, income support along with education and training, and work transition.[i]


Footnotes

[i] go to main content Alex McKenzie, Social Assistance Chronology 1844–2022: A historical summary of social security benefits, war pensions, retirement pensions, taxation measures, family assistance, housing assistance, student support and labour market programmes (as at April 2022), Ministry of Social Development, p. 260-261.

Social Assistance Chronology – a chronology of social assistance policy and programmes in New Zealand – 1844 to 2023 - Ministry of Social Development (msd.govt.nz)