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Unemployment Benefit—Numbers

Tuesday 20 June 2006 Hansard source (external site)

Chadwick9. STEVE CHADWICK (Labour—Rotorua) Link to this
to the Minister for Social Development and Employment

What reports has he received on the number of people receiving the unemployment benefit?

DysonHon RUTH DYSON (Acting Minister for Social Development and Employment) Link to this

I can advise that at the end of May the number of people receiving the unemployment benefit has decreased to 41,000. That is 9,000 fewer people receiving the unemployment benefit than at the same time a year ago, and it is 120,000 fewer people receiving the unemployment benefit than there were when this Labour-led Government first came into office in 1999. That is a 75 percent reduction in unemployment benefit numbers under our Government.

ChadwickSteve Chadwick Link to this

When was the number of people receiving the unemployment benefit last as low as that?

DysonHon RUTH DYSON Link to this

In order to find that date we have to bypass the whole period of the last National Government and go way back to 1986, to find the time when unemployment benefit numbers were as low as that.

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