The Council of Trade Unions says with more unemployment looming, Work and Income (WINZ) rules on benefits for people in relationships need to be reviewed. Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King
CTU economist Andrea Black said underlying the benefit rules for relationships was a "1950s expectation that one partner will support the other".
"But since about the ’90s our households have kept off hardship … by both partners going out to work."Now that we are coming into a world with increased unemployment, this is going to become more exacerbated. You have one partner lose their job and if the other partner is […]
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