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Fact or Fiction: Budget 2021 benefit rises and the big debt mountain

Political pressure likely helped government decide to lift benefit levels.

Brent Edwards Sat, 22 May 2021

Finance Minister Grant Robertson made much of the fact that in his fourth budget, Labour was reversing the benefit cuts imposed by National finance minister Ruth Richardson’s ‘mother of all budgets’ in 1991.

“On this 30th anniversary of that budget, our government is undoing some of the

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Brent Edwards Sat, 22 May 2021
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