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Budget 2020 makes major investments jobs and training as we get New Zealand working again after the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Agriculture
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Social Development

Our social services have been a vital part of keeping communities safe and resilient as we face the impacts of COVID-19, says Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Jan Logie
  • Agriculture
  • Education
  • Justice
  • Social Development

The 2020 Budget includes significant support to stabilise New Zealand’s family violence services, whose work has been shown to be so essential throughout the COVID-19 lockdown.

  • Hon Poto Williams
  • Jan Logie
  • ACC
  • Children
  • Corrections
  • Courts
  • Education
  • Health
  • Justice
  • Māori Development
  • Police
  • Social Development

Over 1 million New Zealanders have more to spend on warmer homes today as the Government’s doubling of the Winter Energy Payment kicks in to keep people well and stimulate the economy, announced Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

Extra support and resources to ensure as many New Zealanders as possible are in work or preparing for work, have been announced by Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

Workers at higher risk from COVID-19 are being supported through an expansion of the COVID-19 leave support scheme ahead of the move to Alert Level 3, say Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Iain Lees-Galloway and Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • Social Development
  • Workplace Relations and Safety

The Government is protecting the integrity of New Zealand businesses correctly accessing the wage subsidy by prioritising the audit process for businesses where complaints have been laid.

  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Finance
  • Social Development

Over two and a half thousand New Zealanders stranded overseas who receive Superannuation, Veteran’s Pension or a main benefit, will keep being paid with a temporary relaxation in policy, Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni and Minister for Seniors Tracey Martin announced today.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Hon Tracey Martin
  • Seniors
  • Social Development

Communities stepping up to help New Zealanders stay at home to break the transmission of COVID-19 and save lives have received Government support, said Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

The Government’s wage subsidy to protect jobs and keep workers and businesses connected during the lockdown has now supported over a million New Zealanders, with $6.6 billion already paid out.

  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Finance
  • Social Development

Essential workers who take leave from work to comply with public health guidance are being supported with a leave scheme to ensure they will continue to receive income, say the Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety Iain Lees-Galloway and Minister for Social Development, Carmel Sepuloni.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • Social Development
  • Workplace Relations and Safety

A $27 million dollar package, effective immediately, is being provided to social sector services and community groups to ensure they can continue to provide essential support to communities as we stay at home as a nation to stop the spread of COVID-19, Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni announced.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

From tomorrow, Government support for farmers and growers affected by drought will be expanded and extended across the country, with access to Rural Assistance Payments (RAPS) available throughout the North Island, parts of the South Island and the Chatham Islands, Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni announced.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Rural Communities
  • Social Development

The Government is announcing significant further support for the economy, workers and businesses as the country unites to prepare for Alert Level 4 in the fight against COVID-19.

  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Finance
  • Social Development

From tomorrow farmers and growers affected by drought in the Northland region and parts of the Auckland region will have access to Rural Assistance Payments (RAPs), Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni has announced.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

Main benefits will increase by over 3 percent, instead of 1.66 percent, on 1 April with the Government’s decision to annually adjust benefit rates to increases in the average wage.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

The Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni today announced a new approach that continues to broaden the Government’s social sector focus from a narrow, investment approach to one centred on people and wellbeing.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

The Government has announced further help for the Southland and Otago regions to speed up recovery efforts from the floods.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

The December quarter benefit numbers released today show the Government’s plan to get people off the benefit and into work is starting to pay off,” Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni said.  

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

Auckland’s growing screen sector is the catalyst for a new partnership between the Ministry of Social Development and Auckland’s economic development agency Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED).

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

The first stock-take of the Government’s Families Package shows families are getting real support to raise their children after a decade of being left behind,” Minister of Social Development Carmel Sepuloni said.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

Thank you to the Child Poverty Action Group for asking me to be here today to provide an update on some of the things that have been happening across my the social development portfolio.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni has welcomed the first reading of the New Zealand Superannuation and Veteran’s Pension Legislation Amendment Bill.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

A surge in the number of registered social workers will contribute to improving the wellbeing of New Zealanders and their families, Minister of Social Development Carmel Sepuloni said on New Zealand Social Workers’ Day.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development