Thats not even taking into account the economic cost of wasting people’s time and energy forcing them to attend “work seeking” seminars etc. When some people are forced to forgo doing some part time work they might be able to do instead, or avoid doing some small amount of work they might be able to manage only on a temporary basis for fear they might loose thier benefit.
Can we though…?
I wonder how much we spend on the bureaucracy of means testing vs how much it would cost to just have UBI instead…
I wonder this sometimes.
Even just changing it to a tax year and liaising with IRD would save MSD a lot of money I imagine.
Thats not even taking into account the economic cost of wasting people’s time and energy forcing them to attend “work seeking” seminars etc. When some people are forced to forgo doing some part time work they might be able to do instead, or avoid doing some small amount of work they might be able to manage only on a temporary basis for fear they might loose thier benefit.
Haha I’m with you, the country if full of people saying “put up the age to qualify for super”, and I’m here saying “no, put it way down!”