Some of us weren’t far off with the gambling levy, being an online service after all.

Actually some solid proposals there, I’m impressed.

  • @eagleeyedtiger
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    Have you been following up?

    Yep followed up twice. This was for our daughter born Oct last year. We called them as soon as we got the birth certificate. The mistake was definitely my fault as I entered a date wrong. They said it would take a month or so. Followed up again in January as we hadn’t heard anything. They couldn’t find our original reference and said they had to resubmit again and it would take 4 months now. Only just received an email in the last week asking for more information. It’s not really an emergency so we didn’t bother chasing them after the second time.

    Sometimes I wonder who their target voter base is.

    I think we both know it trends towards the haves rather than the have nots…

    • @DaveMA
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      It sounds like DIA still haven’t caught up after the COVID massive backlogs. About time for some public service cuts (apparently).

      I think we both know it trends towards the haves rather than the have nots…

      Sure, but a vote for Act is a vote for a National government. And many of that audience would never vote Labour. They need to be targeting the swingvote (say, reasonably well off people early in their careers with young kids).

      • @eagleeyedtiger
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        210 months ago

        I guess you’re right. However I think anyone that’s reasonably well off will take the policy at face value and be happy they get more benefits, at the cost of public services that they’re less reliant on.

        I’m not really into politics and I’m more concerned with the future society my kids are going to inherit. I’m at a loss this year of who to vote for as they are all not giving me much hope.