I am not a carer, or personally aware of such in my circle (although did have but the "disabled" person is now costing the govt a lot more by being cared for in a rest home!) but as a HUMAN with empathy & a brain I cannot understand how this govt can look at carers for the disabled & allow a sudden withdrawal of respite funding at all, let alone overnight with no notice. For all that it would cost until formal Budget in a couple of months, surely repurposing the $52,000 that Luxon was going to claim for his mortgage free Wellington apartment OR any of the other perks for rich people that could be stopped with the same lack of notice???
As for the Winter Energy Payment, yes it goes to ALL but with strong notice of encouragement to decline it for those who don't need it - it is a fiscal fact that any targetting of such "entitlements" (as in we have paid our taxes for all our lives in the case of over 65's) generally costs more to administer than any savings... Messrs "Entitled" Luxon & Seymour & Peters should encourage their mates to decline these payments, or donate them to say DISABLED CAREGIVERS RESPITE CARE eh?
It makes it even more egregious when you hear Luxon telling Hosking that they're working on the savings and cuts to ministries so they can find their tax cuts for July. Last year he said they would go through expenditure "line by line" to find savings. Yet their chaotic and heartless approach is to tell each ministry they need to cut between 6.5 - 7.5% of their budget. Whaikaha had to cut 7.5%, which funnily enough is about the amount that they are running over budget.
Sorry to the email contingent for my mispelling of whether! Aghast. Forgive me.
I am not a carer, or personally aware of such in my circle (although did have but the "disabled" person is now costing the govt a lot more by being cared for in a rest home!) but as a HUMAN with empathy & a brain I cannot understand how this govt can look at carers for the disabled & allow a sudden withdrawal of respite funding at all, let alone overnight with no notice. For all that it would cost until formal Budget in a couple of months, surely repurposing the $52,000 that Luxon was going to claim for his mortgage free Wellington apartment OR any of the other perks for rich people that could be stopped with the same lack of notice???
As for the Winter Energy Payment, yes it goes to ALL but with strong notice of encouragement to decline it for those who don't need it - it is a fiscal fact that any targetting of such "entitlements" (as in we have paid our taxes for all our lives in the case of over 65's) generally costs more to administer than any savings... Messrs "Entitled" Luxon & Seymour & Peters should encourage their mates to decline these payments, or donate them to say DISABLED CAREGIVERS RESPITE CARE eh?
It makes it even more egregious when you hear Luxon telling Hosking that they're working on the savings and cuts to ministries so they can find their tax cuts for July. Last year he said they would go through expenditure "line by line" to find savings. Yet their chaotic and heartless approach is to tell each ministry they need to cut between 6.5 - 7.5% of their budget. Whaikaha had to cut 7.5%, which funnily enough is about the amount that they are running over budget.
And also not to know (or maybe care) how it woukd play out for them in the media/public is so ignorant (or arrogant) it is gobsmaking.
cue surprise there is more than one Winston Peters...
https://www.facebook.com/gypsypolitician/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K8QorgXBBU
Reggae Winston seems way more chill.