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仅1年不到的时间，又有超过5万新西兰人加入救济队伍，这个数字可谓触目惊心。
工党社会发展发言人安尼塔金表示说，一年之内竟然又多了5万2千人失业，意味着靠政府救济维生的国人现在达到31万之众，令人深为担忧。
人们领取的各种类型的福利其实反映了失业人口的构成状况。
与去年同期相比，失业救济领取者又多了3.3万人
单亲家庭救济领取者多了8000人
伤残福利领取者多2000人
疾病救济领取者多8000人
其他福利邻取者多1000人
这些数字表示失业人口远远超过人们最初的想象，明显地，失业的单身父母领的是单亲家庭救济，并不是失业救济；而任何一个伤残人士如果丢了工作，他们将被归到伤残或疾病福利的一类，却不会归入失业救济门下。
救济队伍不断庞大使人们的担忧与日俱增，因为那边厢国家党政府仍坚持否认我国的失业情势恶化，总理约翰基和财相对此束手无策、放任不管，对于复苏本国经济根本拿不出一个像样的计划来。
国家党以前的承诺都到哪里去了？帮了普通家庭吗？如何帮小本生意的商家度过经济萧条呢？他们又是怎么和地方政府合作应对失业问题的？我们只能说：答案在风中飘吧？！
“新西兰急需新鲜思想和办法，让人们摆脱失业困境，可是国家党政府居然就是没一点办法。
政府现在该停止光说不练了。本来我们可以鼓励一部分失业者接受培训，可是现政府既限制学生入学人数、又砍掉了单亲父母训练津贴、还砍削成人社区教育经费-----结果是令失业队伍愈加庞大而已。
安尼塔金指出，“约翰基和他的财政部长一再强调说尽管经济不景气，新西兰人的福利没有受损。事实正相反，他们把能让人们回到工作岗位的所有帮助都砍掉了。”
Kiwi’s on benefits top 310,000
In just 12 months over 50,000 additional Kiwis have signed on for benefits, Labour Social Development spokesperson Annette King says.
“It is extremely concerning that an additional 52,000 people in a single year have signed on for benefits meaning there are now more than 310,000 Kiwis reliant on the Government for their income,” Annette King said
“The real numbers of people losing their jobs is reflected in an increase in all benefit categories,”
An additional 33,000 people on the unemployment benefit since this time last year.
Nearly 8000 more people on the DPB
Nearly 2000 more people on the invalids benefits
Over 8000 more people on the sickness benefit
Over 1000 more people on other benefits
“These figures show there are significantly more unemployed than first thought, obviously single parents who lose their jobs end up on the DPB not the unemployment benefit, while anyone with a disability who becomes unemployed may be put on to the sickness or invalids benefit.
“This worrying increase in beneficiary numbers shows just how far in denial the National Government is about unemployment in this country. John Key and Bill English have given up on stopping New Zealanders ending up on the benefit numbers and they still have no plan for the country’s recovery.
“Where is the promised increase in the level of take home pay a beneficiary can earn by working before it affects their benefit? Increasing this level can be a stepping stone to full-time employment. Where is the help for small business to help them through the recession and where is the Government’s engagement with local councils to help create local solutions to unemployment?
“New Zealand needs fresh ideas and solutions to tackle unemployment, but the National Government doesn’t have any. We have heard a lot of talk about taking the sharpest edges off the recession but in reality they have done little or nothing to help the nearly 52,000 additional people on benefits.
“It’s time the Government stopped talking and started acting, surely some of those people who have lost their jobs could be encouraged to retrain. But National has refused to lift caps on tertiary student numbers, has cut the Training Incentive Allowance for those on the DPB and has made funding cuts to night classes that will actually see more people lose their jobs.
“Bill English and John Key have crowed about the fact that despite the recession they haven’t cut benefit entitlements. But the reality is they have cut everything else that could help to get Kiwis back to work,” Annette King said.
