Is the Disability Allowance outdated?
My name is Thishni De Silva, and I’m interning at CCS Disability Action as a Policy Analyst Intern. I’m passionate about...
Welfare Reform
New Zealand’s disability allowances are failing
Policy Coordinator Sam Murray delves into the link between disability and poverty and investigates why New Zealand is so far behind...
What I Daniel Blake can teach us about New Zealand’s benefit system
A couple of years ago I had the harrowing experience of seeing I Daniel Blake, an impassioned film by Ken Loach...
Welfare Reform; Real change or tilting at windmills?
We have been a little quiet on welfare reform recently, apart from a release on Allowances last week. This is because...
Getting a Foot on the Employment Ladder
We thought, we would share a good blog from our sister blog site: Inclusive Action: Everyday Lives. In the blog, Brendan Murphy...
Not willing or discrimination, disability and unemployment
We have already talked about welfare reform here and in the United Kingdom and heard people’s first hand experience of finding...