February 20, 2018 4:59pm by David Farrar

PM and Deputy PM paid accommodation allowance they are ineligible for

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters were both mistakenly paid over $21,000 for accommodation they didn’t need.

The pair put out a press release on Tuesday afternoon explaining the overpayment, which resulted from the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) continuing to pay them an accommodation allowance despite each moving into an official residence.

You get either an official residence or an accommodation allowance, but not both.

Winston seems to be very unlucky with Government departments consistently over-paying him!

One also wonders if neither checks their bank accounts and notices an extra $10,000!