The Ministry of Social Development has released Benefit Fact Sheets for the quarter to 31 March 2018. In total, at the end of the quarter 273,387 New Zealanders (and their households) were welfare reliant. This included circa 97,488 Māori, plus their whānau households. This represents 26% of all working age
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