Rotorua beneficiaries burnt cardboard cutouts of
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett as part
of protest against her threats to their benefits. 100
beneficiaries gathered outside the Work and Income
on July 11 to demonstrate against the Future Focus
Bill which could see entitlements to emergency
grants slashed. The bill would also force domestic
purposes beneficiaries to compete against a record
number of unemployed for jobs once their youngest
child turns six. March organiser Paul Blair, from the
Rotorua Welfare Action Group, said the National
Government is perpetuating the lie that there
are jobs for everyone and refuses to admit that
unemployment is a permanent structural feature of
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