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National Party proposed changes to youth welfare payments

On Sunday the National Party  announced proposed changes to Youth Benefits under the Future Focus – welfare policy reform.  The changes proposes a shift to a job-focused benefit approach and is directly targeted at approxiamately 4,000 beneficiaries aged 16 -17-years receiving the Youth Benefit and 18-year-old parents receiving  the Domestic Purposes Benefit.