Ruth Richardson - Wikipedia [23] The cut in major benefits in the 1991 budget had long-lasting effects on welfare and poverty in New Zealand Benefits were effectively not raised until a small increase in 2016 under the Fifth National Government by finance minister Bill English, [24] with the 2020 and 2021 budgets largely restoring the pre-1991 levels [25]
Decade Three | 1984-1993 – ANZASW Digital History Project In Aotearoa New Zealand, a Labour Government was elected in 1984, and on reaching power, was presented by Treasury officials with a financial crisis and a plan for dealing with it in which the Treasury recommended a radical review of the welfare approach to social policy
Changes in the history of social welfare in Aotearoa New Zealand 1992 — MAJOR RESTRUCTURING OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE The Department of Social Welfare was restructured into business units: New Zealand Income Support Service; New Zealand Children and Young Persons Service; New Zealand Community Funding Agency; Social Policy Agency; Corporate Office; Ministry of Social Development Te Manatū
1992 ISSUE 130, 20-Aug, pp 2835 - library. victoria. ac. nz part of the direction given on 1 April 1992 in respect of applications for the special benefit received on or after Treasury PublicFinanceAct1989 NEWZEALANDGAZETTE 2839 iOctober 1992, and renewals of that benefit received on or after that date Dated this 11thdayof August 1992 JENNIFERMARYSHIPLEY, Minister of Social Welfare go7599 Transport