The government is tightening welfare regulations by introducing new sanctions for benefit recipients, including mandatory five-hour weekly training courses.
Job seekers must complete at least three job-search activities per week for a month and report their progress to the Ministry of Social Development (MSD).
Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston emphasised the need for accountability, stating that beneficiaries capable of working must take steps to re-enter the workforce, with consequences for non-compliance.
These measures are part of the government’s beneficiary traffic light system, which assigns recipients a green, orange, or red status based on their adherence to work or social obligations.
Those reaching red will face sanctions and must provide evidence of compliance to regain full benefits.
This is a great start. The details submitted need to be verified to establish credibility.
If no effort made on job contact that reference is void. Ie. looking for employment when there is none. No phoneing ahead to verify no jobs available. Only credible/verifiable jobs that are available or will be shortly
NZ is a classic example of horrible economic mismanagement that grew endemic in the 1980’s, when hyper-capitalism became the new panacea for all our economic woes…..the fact we have politicians cheering when New Zealanders move to Australia and take out Australian citizenship, tells you everything you need to know and then some.
Yes, lets have people waste time applying for jobs in a market where there is hardly any work…all to mask the fact the reason this situation exists, is chronic endemic, economic mismanagement, by successive governments, populated by hopeless mainstream party’s…if any should be looking for a new job…its them…….