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Associate Work and Income Minister Peter McCardle says ACT's backing for Community Work is welcome in principle, but goes too far.

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

Associate Social Services, Work and Income Minister Peter McCardle said today the continuing fall in unemployment reflects the return to economic growth in the last year.

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

"The successful Community Work strategy is part of a response to Labour's creation of appalling numbers of long term unemployed when they were in government," Associate Work and Income Minister Pet

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

The number of people on the DPB continues to fall as a result of the new policy focusing on helping people get into training or work through case-loading, Associate Work and Income Minister Peter M

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

The first four months of 1999 has seen for the first time a significant concurrent drop in the numbers of people on three of the

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

An Auckland woman has been helped into work by WINZ after spending 22 years on the DPB, Associate Work and Income Minister Peter McCardle said today. She has a job in a rest home.

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

"There has been a 300 per cent increase in the number of benefit fraud cases referred for prosecution, and that is a sign of how seriously the problem is being taken, " Associate Work and Income Mi

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

"I am pleased the basic problems over student allowances have been fixed, and that WINZ has the payment delays under control", Associate Social Services, Work and Income Minister Peter McCardle sai

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

Associate Work and Income Minister Peter McCardle today dismissed claims made by Labour on WINZ's furnishing spending as a petty and transparent attempt to piggy-back on on-going Alliance attacks.

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

Associate Work and Income Minister Peter McCardle today said he has required that Work and Income New Zealand ensure hard-up students have access to emergency grants to alleviate hardship while awa

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

"Delays in processing student allowances are not new, and happened last year and in every other year when tertiary institutions handled allowances," Associate Work and Income Minister Peter McCardl

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

Associate Work and Income Minister Peter McCardle dismissed the claims made today by Rod Donald regarding WINZ as both petty, and a desperate attempt to lift his party up to one per cent in the pol

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

"Labour has been caught out.

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

Associate Social Services, Work and Income Minister Peter McCardle today attacked the Alliance and Labour for their nonsense over benefit fraud investigations.

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

"The latest unemployment figures contain some good news coming out of Pacific Island communities in New Zealand," said Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income Peter McCardle.

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

"The Maori unemployment rate is unacceptable, but measures are already being taken to try to bring it down," Associate Social Services, Work and Income Minister Peter McCardle said today.

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income Peter McCardle said today the 0.2 per cent increase in unemployment in the December quarter was in line with expectations and shows the effect

  • Peter McCardle
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)