Working For Families Package Under Fire
The Child Poverty Action group is claiming that aspects of the governments new “Working for families” package discriminates against thousands of New Zealand children. Under provision of the Human Rights Act, the lobby group has been given permission to take their case to the Human Rights Review Tribunal.
The group’s claim is that the current Child Tax Credit and the Work Payment discriminates against the 300,000 parents who are currently on benefits or who don’t work enough hours to be eligible for extra payments.
The case could be a long drawn out affair, and it is likely that the government won’t be legally obliged to change the policy, even if the lobby groups wins the case. However, the case could be a groundbreaking one in terms of future policies.
