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"Submissions" closes at midnight on the Social Security Amendment Bill;
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCSSC_SCF_09FDCD32-87EF-4C46-E703-08DD18052784/social-security-amendment-bill
What they're doing is passing policy that throws hundreds or thousands of people out of work, cutting WINZ staff numbers, then (this bill) increasing the amount of paperwork people have to get processed successfully to get and keep a benefit. The inevitable result is more poverty, homelessness, hungry children, domestic stress and violence, crime, and imprisonmemt.
They say it's about "jobseekers", which implies healthy people taking a public funded holiday from working. But in the WINZ system, "jobseekers" includes people like me who have medical conditions (some lifelong) that make it difficult or impossible for us to work fulltime.
All of this will be much worse for people from racial minorities - including Māori - and our neurospicy whānau, all of whom are already discriminated against by WINZ and the criminal injustice system.
https://pmn.co.nz/read/politics-/punitive-policy-or-a-pathway-to-employment
In summary, bad words. Bad, *bad* words 🤬
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCSSC_SCF_09FDCD32-87EF-4C46-E703-08DD18052784/social-security-amendment-bill
What they're doing is passing policy that throws hundreds or thousands of people out of work, cutting WINZ staff numbers, then (this bill) increasing the amount of paperwork people have to get processed successfully to get and keep a benefit. The inevitable result is more poverty, homelessness, hungry children, domestic stress and violence, crime, and imprisonmemt.
They say it's about "jobseekers", which implies healthy people taking a public funded holiday from working. But in the WINZ system, "jobseekers" includes people like me who have medical conditions (some lifelong) that make it difficult or impossible for us to work fulltime.
All of this will be much worse for people from racial minorities - including Māori - and our neurospicy whānau, all of whom are already discriminated against by WINZ and the criminal injustice system.
https://pmn.co.nz/read/politics-/punitive-policy-or-a-pathway-to-employment
In summary, bad words. Bad, *bad* words 🤬
