IP’s Welfare Reforms

Insolent Prick has posted his 14 steps of welfare reform. They’re very, ummm, decisive.

1. Requirement for all long-term unemployed to report to Work and Income at 9am daily to collect their benefit. Get them into the habit of getting out of bed.
2. Pay a bonus of $2,000 to all women who have been on the DPB for more than two years, to get their tubes tied.
3. Pay bonuses of $1000 to all fathers of welfare-dependent children to have vasectomies.
4. Pay bonuses of $500 to WINZ staff for moving a long-term beneficiary from welfare into work. Bonus payable after six months of continuous employment by the beneficiary.
5. Every child receiving welfare must have their father named on birth certificates.
6. No welfare entitlements to the father of children living with mothers on the DPB.
7. Non-custodial fathers must be in paid employment, and must make minimum contributions of $50 per week.
8. Fathers not permitted to leave New Zealand while children living with a dependent DPB beneficiary.
9. Children must attend school. Non-attendance would lead to the benefit being cancelled.
10. All children must receive medical check-ups at least every six months, to check on the nutritional and general health status of the child.
11. Random alcohol and drug checks of long-term welfare beneficiaries.
12. No violent offenders permitted to live in the same home as children of welfare beneficiaries.
13. A maximum six months of entitlement to the unemployment benefit in any five year period, and a maximum of two years’ entitlement to the DPB for any person in their lifetime.
14. Frequent, random checks of homes of welfare dependent children to assess housing needs and compliance.

Well those should certainly generate some debate!