Perhaps the new ministry of delivery will help *actually* deliver something? Anything.
Or perhaps it will be just another money hole
When was the last time that any government GAVE the tax payers anything. they have arranged to spend our tax money in a certain way. but nothing is a gift !
I'm 100% confident they will deliver more paperwork, lots more meetings and higher salaries (for themselves - cause they work so hard)!
Seems you may be right:
Benefit rise gives single mum options: Single mother Zhane Neho has learnt to go without. But soon she will receive up to $36 more a week and hopes to buy a car to drive her children to school on cold days.
"Unable to put aside any money to save for a car, Neho sometimes keeps her children home if weather conditions are abysmal because she doesn’t want them to catch a cold on the walk to school and daycare"
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/budget/300312218/budget-2021-surprise-increase-in-benefits-welcomed-by-those-most-in-need. I was quite surprised by the article.
Firstly I thought the benefit increases largely just catch up with recent cost of living increases, and if not will get chewed up with future rent increases.
Secondly, the common cold is a virus, and you catch it from other people (especially in highly occupied, poorly ventilated spaces), not from being outside in bad weather.
Thirdly $36/week is only $1,872/year. Very challenging to buy, fuel, insure, maintain and repair a car for within that.