The three new categories are
Supported Living Payment
Sole Parent Support
Job Seeker.
The Invalids Benefit stays under a new name "Supported Living Payment." Invalids are still recognised as needing support, and are not work tested.
However Work and Income is using designated doctors to get thousands of people off this benefit.
The sickness benefit has been abolished. All sickness beneficiaries are classified as Job Seekers even though some of them obviously cannot work! Some will temporarily have exemptions from seeeking work, and others will be allowed to seek work at limited hours.
Single parents get "Sole Parent support" which requires many parents to have to be available for work, and even requires parents with babies as young as one years old to be available for full time work if they have another child aged fourteen or over!
Here are the links to the WINZ posts:
http://www.workandincome.govt.nz/individuals/benefit-changes/index.html
http://www.workandincome.govt.nz/individuals/benefit-changes/new-benefit-catagories.html#PartnersofpeoplereceivingJobseekerSupportandSupportedLivingPayment4
http://www.workandincome.govt.nz/individuals/benefit-changes/moving-from-invalids-benefit-to-supported-living-payment.html
We have been campaigning against these attacks for years!!
We participated in a National Day of Action against these attacks last October:
http://waitemataunite.blogspot.co.nz/2012_09_01_archive.html
See our press statement here:
http://waitemataunite.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/why-we-support-national-day-of-action.html
See our submission here
http://waitemataunite.blogspot.co.nz/2012_11_01_archive.html
May Day Protest 2012
http://waitemataunite.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/motherhood-is-work-john-key-keep-your.html
http://waitemataunite.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/may-day-mothers-protest-aotea-square.html
See the blog archive for other other protests and statements!
You can also get more information about the welfare attacks by looking at our links column.
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