Community Wage and Job Seeker agreements

Agreements/contracts introduced for up to 20 hours per week. Work for the dole programme replaced unemployment, sickness and training benefits.[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. 308.

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