Judith Collins MP National Party Welfare Spokeswoman
05 April 2005
Alarming DPB figures show it’s time for
change
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins
says some alarming figures on the amount spent by taxpayers
on the DPB show it is time for change.
“National says that
sole parents on the DPB should be available for part-time
work or retraining once their youngest child reaches school
age. Labour relaxed the rule, National will fix it,” says
Ms Collins.
She is commenting in the wake of claims by DPB
campaigner Lindsay Mitchell today that annual expenditure on
the DPB has reached an all time high at $1.777 billion for
the 2003/2004 year, up from $1.59 billion in
1999/2000.
“Labour does not even recognise there are major
problems with abuse of the DPB, and the message it is
sending.
“Many hard working Kiwi taxpayers would love to
spend time at home with their children, but they would never
dream of making other taxpayers fund that choice,” says Ms
Collins.
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