The addition of folic acid to all non-organic bread-making wheat flour will reduce the incidence of birth defects which can cause life-long disability.

The Government has given no reason why these increases have been staggered.

CPAG modelling shows many families paying low rent have income below poverty lines by around $100 - $230 a week.

Due to systemic discrimination, whānau Māori, Pacific families and families with disabled members are more likely than others to be facing the toxic stress of poverty.

This call comes as the Child Poverty Action Group releases a stocktake showing none of the WEAG's 42 recommendations has been fully implemented.

While the bright-line extension and the removal of interest deductibility are likely to cool the property market a little, they will not address wealth imbalance.

Polling out today shows seven out of ten (69%) of New Zealanders agree “the Government should increase income support for those on low incomes and not in paid work”.

Children and their families are likely to face "significant and wide-ranging" negative effects from COVID-19, according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's own advisors.

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) welcomes the 2020 Child Poverty Monitor report and agrees with the finding that ‘bold action’ is required to turn the tide on child poverty.

Social workers and foodbank organisers are among the latest of now 60+ groups signing an open letter to the government to ensure liveable incomes for all, while one signatory warns of a second wave of increasing inequality at this "critical" time.

Over 60 prominent organisations have joined together to urge the government to raise income support by Christmas, in order to release families from dire poverty.

Child Poverty Action Group, ActionStation and Auckland Action Against Poverty are calling on the new government to follow through quickly on their plan of raising income support so people receiving benefits are no longer locked into poverty.

Activists and researchers are warning toxic stress, food insecurity and isolation are set to rise for many families in poverty almost immediately, as their weekly incomes reduce by $63 from tomorrow [Thurs 1 Oct].

Children with disability are more likely than other children to live in poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand – but it shouldn’t be this way, says Child Poverty Action Group.

For te wiki o te reo Māori 2020, Child Poverty Action Group is excited to be releasing a series of videos discussing Kia Piki Ake Te Mana Tangata – the principles recommended by the Welfare Expert Advisory Group for welfare reform

The Child Poverty Action Group today warmly welcomed the Labour Party’s policies to reinstate the Training Incentive Allowance for sole parents undertaking tertiary level study and to make part-time paid work more worthwhile.

A slew of new reports show successive governments have failed children and young people for decades, just as the current government has reiterated its plan to cut incomes of families receiving benefits.

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) and Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) are both urging the Government to immediately raise family incomes instead, as an ongoing crisis-response measure.

Whānau and families will sleep better at night knowing their homes can’t be taken away from them without good reason thanks to the new residential tenancies law, says the Child Poverty Action Group.

This election offers a unique opportunity to reshape New Zealand’s society so child poverty is dramatically reduced and possibly even eliminated.

CPAG finds that Australia’s family tax benefits system is significantly more generous than New Zealand’s Working for Families tax credits.

Ngā Tāngata Microfinance and Child Poverty Action Group applauds the Commerce Commission and the Financial Markets Authority for identifying and addressing the growing issues with scammers and fraudsters in our Pacific communities.

The Child Poverty Action Group welcomes the Greens’ Poverty Action Plan released yesterday, as the type of step-change New Zealand needs.

CPAG executive officer Georgie Craw says: "We hope the Government will take up the opportunity it has afforded itself to enable our nation to be the place where every child is able to reach their full potential."

CPAG believes creating separate services and duplicating existing online job seeker tools could lead to a ‘two tier system’ which could further exacerbate the stress of those out of work.

CPAG is calling on the Government to take a new approach to our income support system so the impacts of Covid-19 do not lead to an increase in child poverty.

Child Poverty Action Group welcomes the COVID-19 stimulus package with its recognition that benefits must be accessible and more generous.

Child Poverty Action Group calls on the Government to fix the welfare system so everyone, not just the forestry workers who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus, receive adequate support.

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) argues the Government's rhetoric around the relief of housing-related poverty is not being matched by what it is doing and achieving through its housing policies.